Medieval Bible Leaf - Lexicon - S and T names

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Original leaf from a medieval manuscript folio Bible with illuminations from the Johannes Grusch WorkshopLatin gothic script, hand-written in brown ink, on animal vellum. Rubricated chapter numbers, initials and marginalia in red and blue. 50 lines of text in double columns.                     

France: Paris, c. 1247.

Formerly owned by the Royal Abbey of St. Genevieve in Paris.  

One exceptional six-line illuminated initial – in blue with white tracery & an interior in tempera colors of orange, blue & burnished gold. The initial sits on a pink ground with white tracery & burnished gold and extends into the margin towards the top in gold, pink, orange & white.

One two-line initial in blue with red pen-work extending into the margin.

The large size of the page is unusual in 13th century Bible production!

This leaf contains a lexicon, or interpretation of Hebrew names, beginning with ''S'', and, following the illuminated initial, ''T''.

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, extremely thin and very white.

Shipped in archival 16x12'' mat

  • Inventory# IM-3343
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