Medieval Bible Leaf - Luke - Extensive glossing

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Original leaf from a medieval manuscript pocket Bible. Latin gothic minuscule script, ruled in red & written in brown ink on extremely thin animal vellum. (178x118mm). Rubricated chapter numbers in red & blue.

Two illuminated multi-line initials in red & blue with delicate red & blue penwork extending along the margins. 53 lines of text in double columns (11 lines per inch!). Extensive glossing!                France (Probably Paris), c. 1250.

This leaf contains Luke 12:17 - 14:7:  ''Et cogitabat intra...'' (And he thought within himself...Consider the lilies, how they grow: they labor not, neither do they spin. But I say to you, not even Solomon in all his glory was clothed like one of these...Ye hypocrites, doth not every one of you, on the Sabbath day, loose his ox or his ass from the manger, and lead them to water?...[the kingdom of God] is like to a grain of mustard see, which a man took and cast into his garden, and it grew and became a great tree...Blessed is he that cometh in the  name of the Lord......).

This leaf, from a “portable” Bible during the period of the Crusades, would have been used in the abstract study of theology or the preaching of the Gospel around the medieval countryside.

Presented in an archival 14x11'' mat

  • Inventory# IM-11113
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