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 text from Mark 8:16 – 10:16: ''Et cogitabant…'' (They reasoned among themselves, saying: Because we have no bread…Taking the blind man by the hand, he led him out of the town…again he laid his hands upon his eyes & he began to see…Peter taking him, began to rebuke him. Who turning about & seeing his disciples, threatened Peter, saying: Go behind me Satan, because thou savourest not the things that are of God, but that are of men…Jesus taketh with him Peter & James & John & leadeth them up into an high mountain apart by themselves & was transfigured before them…A cloud overshadowing them: and a voice came out of the cloud saying: This is my most beloved son…If thy eye scandalize thee, pluck it out. It is better for thee with one eye to enter into the kingdom of God, than having two eyes to be cast into the hell of fire…A man shall leave his father & mother; and shall cleave to his wife…Suffer the little children to come unto me, & forbid them not; for of such is the kingdom of God…).
Shipped in archival 14x11'' mat.
