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 Luke 13:25 - 16:8: ''Domini...'' (Lord, open to us...Behold, they are last that shall be first...You shall not see me till the time come, when you shall say: Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord...Which of you have an ass or an ox fall into a pit, and will not immediately draw him out, on the Sabbath day? ...Every one that exalteth himself, shall be humbled; and he that humbleth himself, shall be exalted..Every one of you that doth not renounce all that he possesseth, cannot be my disciple...There shall be joy in heaven upon one sinner that doth penance, more than upon ninety-nine just who need not penance...It is fit that we should make merry and be glad, for this thy brother was dead and is come to life again; he was lost, and is found...).
This leaf, from a ''portable'' Bible during the Crusades period, would have been used in the abstract study of theology or preaching of the Gospel around the medieval countryside.
Shipped in archival 14x11'' mat.
