Medieval Bible Leaf - Matthew - Faith of a mustard seed...

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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 the illuminator of the Oxford Bible).

Written with brown ink in Latin gothic script on animal vellum. (185x135mm).

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. Original patch in left column.      

Produced in Oxford, c. 1240 A.D. 

Line two begins Matthew 17:14-20:5: ''Domine…'' (Lord, have pity on my son, for he is a lunatic, and suffereth much...If you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you shall say to this mountain, Remove from hence hither, and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible to you...the Son of man shall be betrayed into the hands of men: and they shall kill him, and the third day he shall rise again...Unless you be converted, and become as little children, you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven...if thy eye scandalize thee, pluck it out...Where there are two or three gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them...For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and they two shall be in one flesh...What therefore God hath joined together, let no man put asunder...Suffer the little children, and forbid them not to come to me: for the kingdom of heaven is for such...It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of heaven...).

Shipped in archival 14x11'' mat.

  • Inventory# IM-9662
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