Medieval Bible Leaf - Luke - The Last Supper

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A lovely original leaf from a medieval manuscript pocket Bible, written in Paris c. 1240-50. In Latin gothic micro-minuscule script, ruled in red and written in brown ink in two columns of 44 lines on animal vellum. (150 x 100 mm - 6 x 4"). 

Rubricated chapter numbers, two multi-lined illuminated Lombard style initials &elegant marginalia red & blue. The gothic text is written in extremely tiny & very well formed letters, so small that there are twelve lines of text to the inch!

This leaf begins Luke 21:24 - 23:1:  ''Et cadent…'' (And they shall fall by the edge of the sword...They shall see the Son of man coming in a cloud, with great power and majesty. But when these things begin to come to pass, look up, and lift up your heads, because your redemption is at hand...Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away...Taking bread, he gave thanks, and brake; and gave to them saying: This is my body, which is given for you. Do this for a commemoration of me.  In like manner the chalice also, after he had supped saying:  This is the chalice, the new testament in my blood, which shall be shed for you...).

The book from which this leaf came was a very high-quality production, scribed in the Johannes Grusch Workshop in Paris. Calligraphy is excellent, & the vellum is of the finest style, extremely thin & very white. Other leaves from this same book were exhibited in the Jeanne Blackburn Collection, Cleveland Art Museum (pl. 7 & 8).

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

Shipped in archival 14x11'' mat

  • Inventory# IM-11034
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