Medieval Bible Leaf - c 1240 - De Brailes workshop - Oxford

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Original leaf from an English manuscript pocket Bible illuminated in 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 the illuminator of the Oxford Bible).

Written with brown ink in Latin gothic script on animal vellum. (185 x 135 mm - 7.4 x 5.4")

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. 

Verso contains a translation of verse 24:1 written in Old English.

This leaf contains text from Ecclesiasticus (King James Sirach) 22:12 - 24:39:  ''Nequissimi enim...'' (For the wicked life of a wicked fool is worse than death...Keep fidelity with a friend in his poverty, that in his prosperity also thou mayst rejoice...Wisdom shall praise her own self, and shall be honored in God, and shall glory in the midst of her people [written in margin] And shall open her mouth in the churches of the most High, and shall glorify herself in the sight of his power...He said to me:  Let thy dwelling be in Jacob, and thy inheritance in Israel, and take root in my elect.  From the beginning and before the world, was I created, and unto the world to come I shall not cease to be, and in the holy dwelling place I have ministered before him...).

Presented in an archival 14x11'' mat

 

  • Inventory# IM-11109
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