Original leaf from a medieval manuscript folio Bible with illuminations from the Johannes Grusch Workshop. Latin gothic script, hand-written in brown ink, on animal vellum. Rubricated chapter numbers, initials and marginalia in red and blue. 50 lines of text in double columns. (290x190mm)
France: Paris, c. 1247.
Formerly owned by the Abbey of St. Genevieve in Paris.
Two multi-line illuminated initials alternating in blue with intricate red scrollwork and red with intricate blue scrollwork –extending along the length of the text. One elaborately decorated calligraphic initial noting significant text (Luke 16:5).
The large size of the page is unusual in 13th century Bible production!
The calligraphic initial begins Luke 16:5 - 18:15: ''Quantum...'' (How much doth thou owe my lord?...No servant can serve two masters...It is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one title of the law to fall...If you had faith like to a grain of mustard seed,..Arise and go thy way; for thy faith hath made thee whole...The kingdom of God is within you...Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left...).
Shipped in archival 16x12'' mat.
