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. (290 x 193 mm - 11.6 x 7.7"). Excellent condition with minor vellm defect in blank margin.
Rubricated chapter numbers, initials and marginalia in red and blue. 50 lines of text in double columns.
France: Paris, c. 1247.
Formerly owned by the Royal Abbey of St. Genevieve in Paris.
One ten-line illuminated initial in pink with delicate white tracery and an interior of burnished gold, blue and orange – sitting on a ground of blue with white tracery; extender flows into the margin in colors of blue, pink, orange and burnished gold with fine white tracery.
One two-line initial in red with blue pen-work, extending into the margin; numerous one-line initials alternating in red and blue.
The large size of the page is unusual in 13th century Bible production!
This leaf contains a lexicon, or interpretation of Hebrew names, beginning with ''G'', and, following the illuminated initial, ''H''.
Shipped in archival 16x12'' mat.
