An Uncommon Medieval Bible Leaf - Commentary/Prologues c 1240-55

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Original leaf from a 750 year old medieval manuscript pocket Bible.  Latin gothic minuscule script, hand-written in brown ink, on animal vellum.  (153 x 108mm – 6 x 4’’) 

Six multi-line illuminated initials in pink or blue with delicate white penwork and burnished gold bezants. Two inhabited with whimsical creatures stretching along the margin!  

50 lines of text in double columns (11 lines per inch!).    

Produced in France (Paris) circa 1240-55. 

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

This text continues a Bible commentary/prologue.

This is an extremely attractive, well embellished bible leaf with very precise calligraphy, and appealing initials. It is in an excellent state of preservation.

Presented in an archival 14 x 11'' mat

This leaf, from a “portable” Bible during the period of the Crusades, would have been used in the abstract study of theology or the preaching of the Gospel around the medieval countryside.

  • Inventory# IM-12141
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