c 1247 Bible Leaf - Ten Commandments - Two continuous leaves

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Two original continuous leaves (four pages) from a medieval manuscript folio Bible with illuminations from the Johannes Grusch Workshop(Each leaf: 290 x 190mm – 11 ¼ x 7 ½’’) 

Formerly owned by the Abbey of St. Genevieve in Paris. Latin gothic script, hand-written in brown ink, on animal vellum. Rubricated chapter numbers, initials & marginalia in red and blue. 50 lines of text in double columns. Four 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.

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.

The text contains Deuteronomy 3:22 - 7:20: “Ne timeas...'' (Fear them not: for the Lord your God will fight for you...I am the Lord thy God, who brought the out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage Thou shalt not have strange gods in my sight.  Thou shalt not make to thyself a graven thing...Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain...Observe the day of the Sabbath...Honor they father and mother...Thou shalt not kill. Neither shalt thou commit adultery. And thou shalt not steal. Neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbor. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife....).

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