Original leaf from a medieval manuscript pocket Bible. Latin gothic minuscule script, hand-written in brown ink, on animal vellum. (153 x 108mm – 6 x 4’’)
One multi-line illuminated initial in red extending past the length of the text in blue and red penwork; two-illuminated chapter numbers with intricate red and blue penwork extending along the margin. 50 lines of text in double columns (11 lines per inch!).
Related to the Dominican Painter & Associates workshop (reference Branner).
Produced in France (Paris) circa 1240-55.
The text contains Jeremiah 7:12 – 10:17: “Ad locum meum…” (Go ye to my place in Silo…This thing I commanded them, saying: Hearken to my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people: and walk ye in all the way that I have commanded you that it may be well with you. But they hearkened not…Wise men are confounded, they are dismayed, and taken: for they have cast away the word of the Lord, and there is no wisdom in them…Thus saith the Lord: Learn not according to the ways of the Gentiles: and be not afraid of the signs of heaven which the heathens fear…There is none like to thee, O Lord: thou art great, and great is thy name in might…The Lord is the true God: he is the living God, and the everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his threatening…).
Presented in an archival 14 x 11'' mat
