A Medieval Bible Leaf c 1240-55 - France - Reign of Saint Louis

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Original leaf from a medieval manuscript pocket Bible.  Latin gothic minuscule script, hand-written in brown ink, on animal vellum.  (153 x 108mm – 6 x 4’’) 

Two multi-line illuminated initials alternating in deep blue with elaborate red penwork, and red with elaborate blue penwork - extending in to the margins.   50 lines of text in double columns (11 lines per inch!).  

Related to the Dominican Painter & Associates workshop (reference Branner).

Produced in France (Paris) circa 1240-55,during the reign of Saint Louis (King Louis IX). 

This leaf contains text from IV Kings (King James II Kings) 21:20 – 23:30: “Fecitque…” (And he did evil in the sight of the Lord, as Manasseh his father had done…Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign…and he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, and walked in all the ways of David his father… And the king stood upon the step: and made a covenant with the Lord, to walk after the Lord, and to keep his commandments, and his testimonies and his ceremonies, with all their heart, and with all their soul, and to perform the words of this covenant, which were written in that book: and the people agreed to the covenant…).

Presented in an archival 14 x 11'' mat

  • Inventory# IM-12136
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