Medieval Bible Leaf - Matthew ''O thou of little faith...''

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Original leaf from a medieval manuscript pocket Bible. Latin gothic micro-minuscule script, hand-written in brown ink, on animal vellum. Rubricated chapter numbers in red and blue.(160x110mm) .

Three multi-line illuminated initials alternating in deep blue with elaborate red penwork  and red with blue penwork - all into the margins. 59 lines of text in double columns (14 lines per inch!).  One small closed tear in outer margin (not into text).

Produced in Italy, (Probably Bologna), c. AD 1250-75.

Line 2 begins Matthew 13:20 - 16:2:  ''Qui autem...'' (And he that received the seed upon stony ground, is he that heareth the word, and immediately received it with joy...The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took and sowed in his field...Give me here in a dish the head of John the Baptist...He took the five loaves and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed, and brake, and gave the loaves to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitudes...He came to them walking upon the sea...O thou of little faith, why didst thou doubt?...If the blind lead the blind, both fall into the pit...).

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-10818
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