Medieval Bible Leaf - Luke - ''Physician heal thyself...''

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A lovely original leaf from a medieval manuscript pocket Bible, written in Northern France (probably Paris), c. 1260. In Latin gothic micro-minuscule script, ruled in red & written in brown ink in two columns of 43 lines on animal vellum.  (156x103 mm).

Rubricated chapter numbers; one multi-lined illuminated Lombard style initial &elegant marginal penwork in red & blue. Calligraphy is excellent, & the vellum is of the finest quality, extremely thin & smooth. The gothic text is written in remarkably tiny (ten lines of text to the inch!) & very well formed letters.

This leaf contains Luke 4:13 – 5:30:  ''Et consommata…'' (And all the temptation being ended the devil departed from him for a time…Is not this the son of Joseph? And he said to them: Doubtless you will say to me this similitude: Physician, heal thyself…Amen I say to you, that no prophet is accepted in his own country…Simon answering said to him: Master, we have labored all night, & have taken nothing, but at thy work I will let down the net. And when they had done this, they enclosed a very great multitude of fishes…Jesus saith to Simon: Fear not: from henceforth thou shalt catch men…A man full of leprosy, who seeing Jesus, and falling of his face, besought him, saying: Lord if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean. And stretching forth his hand, he touched him saying: I will. Be thou cleansed…).

Provenance: parent book was a ''portable'' Bible of the Crusades period, used in study of theology or preaching of the Gospel. It was in England by 17th cent; ex coll. Lord Saltoun & later in the collection of Wm Foyle (1885-1963) at Beeligh Abbey.

The bible containing this leaf was very high-quality, illuminated in Paris & similar to work associated by Branner with the Dominican Painter (see R. Branner, Manuscript Painting in Paris during the Reign of Saint Louis).          

Shipped in archival 14x11'' mat.   

  • Inventory# IM-7370
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