Original leaf from an English manuscript pocket Bible. From a Bible illuminated at the workshop of William de Brailes - one of the few 13th century English illuminators known by name! (De Brailes maintained an active workshop at Oxford c. 1238-52. He was illuminator of the Oxford Bible). (185x135mm) .
Written with brown ink in Latin gothic script on animal vellum. Rubricated chapter numbers, initials & marginalia in red & blue. 54 lines of text in double columns (10 lines per inch!). For sister leaf see Blackburn Collection, Cleveland Museum of Art, pl. 4).
Produced in Oxford, c. 1240 A.D.
This leaf contains I Corinthians 12:20 - 15:33: ''Nunc autem...'' (But now there are many members indeed, yet one body...Now you are the body of Christ, and members of member...If I speak with the tongues of men, and of angels, and have not charity, I am becoming as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal...Charity is patient, is kind: charity envieth not, dealeth not perversely; is not puffed up; Is not ambitious, seeketh not her own, is not provoked to anger, thinketh no evil...When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child. But, when I became a man, I put away the things of a child...And now there remain faith, hope, and charity, these three: but the greatest is charity...God is not the God of dissension, but of peace...).
Shipped in archival 11x14'' mat.
