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 190 mm - 11.6 x 7.6")
Rubricated chapter numbers, initials & marginalia in red and blue. 49lines of text in double columns. Two multi-lined illuminated initials alternating in deep blue and red with delicate red and blue penwork & extending along the length of the outer margins.
France: Paris, c. 1247. Formerly owned by the Abbey of St. Genevieve in Paris.
The large size of the page is unusual in 13th century Bible production! The book from which this leaf came was a very high-quality production, scribed in the Johannes Grusch Workshop in Paris. The calligraphy is excellent, and the vellum is of the finest style.
This leaf contains Acts 21:33 - 23:22: “[Tunc accen]dens tribunus apprehendit...'' (Then the tribune coming near, took him, and commanded him to be bound...Falling on the ground I heard a voice saying to me: Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? And I answered: Who art thou, Lord? And he said to me: I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom thou persecutest...Arise and go to Damascus...The God of our fathers has preordained thee that thou shouldst know his will, and see the Just One, and shouldst hear the voice from his mouth. For thou shalt be his witness to all men, of those things which thou hast seen and heard...).
Presented in an archival 16x12'' mat
