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

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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).

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.

This leaf contains Matthew 20:6 – 22:11: “Circa undecimam...” (But about the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing...Many are called but few chosen…The Son of man is not come to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a redemption for many…Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord…My house shall be called the house of prayer; but you have made it a den of thieves…),

The back (verso) contain scribal omissions added in the marginthese omissions are surrounded by a blue box indicating that the “transcription had been systematically checked for accuracy” (De Hamel, Scribes and Illuminators, p. 43).

Presented in an archival 14x11'' mat

  • Inventory# IM-11117
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