Medieval Bible Leaf - William de Brailes workshop - Oxford

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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 Romans 7:9 – 10:9: ''Ego autem…'' (And I lived some time without the law…The law of the spirit of life, in Christ Jesus, hath delivered me from the law of sin and of death…whosoever are led by the spirit of God, they are the sons of God…the sufferings of this time are not worthy to be compared with the glory to come, that shall be revealed to us…).

This leaf, from a ''portable'' Bible during the period of the Crusades, would have been used in the abstract study of theology or the preaching of the Gospel around the medieval countryside.

Shipped in archival 14x11'' mat.

  • Inventory# IM-4592
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