Original leaf from an English manuscript pocket Bible. From a Bible illuminated at the workshop of William de Brailes - one of the few 13th century English illuminators known by name! (De Brailes maintained an active workshop at Oxford c. 1238-52. He was illuminator of the Oxford Bible). Written with brown ink in Latin gothic script on animal vellum. (185x135mm)
Rubricated chapter numbers, initials & marginalia in red & blue. 54 lines of text in double columns (10 lines per inch!). For sister leaf see Blackburn Collection, Cleveland Museum of Art, pl. 4.
Produced in Oxford, c. 1240 A.D.
This leaf contains John 9:35 - 11:52: “Tu credis in filium...” (Dost thou believe in the Son of God...For judgment I am come into this world; that they who see not may see; and they who see, may become blind...I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd giveth his life for his sheep...I am the resurrection and the life: he that believeth in me, although he be dead, shall live...),
The back (verso) contain a scribal omission added in the margin – the omission is surrounded by a blue box indicating that the “transcription had been systematically checked for accuracy” (De Hamel, Scribes and Illuminators, p. 43).
Presented in an archival 14 x 11'' Mat
