Original leaf from a medieval manuscript pocket Bible. Latin gothic minuscule script, ruled in red & written in brown ink on extremely thin animal vellum. Rubricated chapter numbers in red & blue. (178x118mm) .
Two multi-line initials in red or blue with contrasting blue or red penwork extending into the margins. 53 lines of text in double columns (11 lines per inch!). Extensive glossing. Produced in France (Probably Paris), c. 1250.
This leaf contains II Corinthians 2:1 – 7:1: “Statui…” (But I determined this with myself, not to come to you again in sorrow…You are the epistle of Christ, ministered by us, & written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in the fleshy tables of the heart…The Lord is a Spirit. And where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty…God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God, in the face of Christ Jesus…He who raised up Jesus, will raise us up also with Jesus, & place us with you. For all things are for your sakes; that the grace abounding through many, may abound in thanksgiving unto the glory of God…We look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen, are temporal; but the things which are not see, are eternal…We walk by faith, & not by sight…Christ died for all; that they also who live, may not now live to themselves, but unto him who died for them & rose again…For he saith: In an accepted time have I heard thee; & in the day of salvation have I helped thee…).
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.
Shipped in archival 14x11'' mat.
