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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ex Libris, post: 6026299, member: 14916&quot;]Thanks for the compliment, but I think you are overestimating my knowledge. I have some knowledge, but most of it is because my google skills, to be honest. </p><p><br /></p><p>The manuscript pages you mention are (that is my guess) from a bible written 200 years earlier than the Gutenberg Bible(1250 vs 1455). Although the style of the page is similar, the font is quite different. The manuscript was written in a kind of proto-gothic font, while the Gutenberg Bible was printed in a much more formal Gothic letter (also called blackletter or fraktur). If you are interested in early writing, this is a great starting point:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://guindo.pntic.mec.es/jmag0042/LATIN_PALEOGRAPHY.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://guindo.pntic.mec.es/jmag0042/LATIN_PALEOGRAPHY.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://guindo.pntic.mec.es/jmag0042/LATIN_PALEOGRAPHY.pdf</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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