Medieval Bible Leaf - c 1260 - The Crucifixion

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 A lovely original leaf from a medieval manuscript pocket Bible, written in Northern France (probably Paris), c. 1260. In Latin gothic micro-minuscule script, ruled in red & written in brown ink in two columns of 43 lines on animal vellum. (156 x103 mm - 6.2 x 4.1").

Rubricated chapter numbers; two multi-lined illuminated Lombard style initials &elegant marginal penwork in red & blue. Calligraphy is excellent, & the vellum is of the finest quality, extremely thin & smooth. The gothic text is written in remarkably tiny (ten lines of text to the inch!) & very well formed letters.

This leaf contains text from Mark 14:49 – 16:3  (PASSION OF CHRIST)  “Cotidie…” (I was daily with you in the temple teaching, & you did not lay hands on me. But that the scriptures may be fulfilled…Art thou the Christ the Son of the blessed God? And Jesus said to him: I am. And you shall see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of the power of God & coming with the clouds of heaven…They again cried out: Crucify him…When the sixth hour was come, there was darkness over the whole earth until the ninth hour. And at the ninth hour, Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying: Eloi, Eloi, lamma sabacthani? Which is, being interpreted, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? …).

Provenance: parent book was a “portable” Bible of Crusades period, used in study of theology or preaching of the Gospel. It was in England by 17th cent; ex coll. Lord Saltoun & later in collection of Wm Foyle (1885-1963) at Beeligh Abbey. The bible containing this leaf was very high-quality, illuminated in Paris & similar to work associated by Branner with the Dominican Painter (see R. Branner, Manuscript Painting in Paris during the Reign of Saint Louis).        

Presented in an archival 14x11'' mat     

  • Inventory# IM-7338
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