Original leaf from a medieval manuscript folio Bible with illuminations from the Johannes Grusch Workshop. Formerly owned by the Royal Abbey of St. Genevieve in Paris. Latin gothic script, in brown ink, on animal vellum. (290x190mm)
Rubricated chapter numbers, initials & marginalia in red and blue. 50 lines of text in double columns. Two multi-lined illuminated initials in red and blue with delicate red & blue penwork extending along length of the margins. Condition note: Tear in lower left margin stitched together – a very long time ago - thread still attached!
France: Paris, c. 1247.
The large size of the page is unusual in 13th century Bible production! 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.
This leaf contains text from John 2:18 – 4:40: ''Quod signum…'' (What sign dost thou show unto us, seeing thou dost these things? Jesus answered, and said to them: Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up…Amen, amen I say to thee, unless a man be born again of water and the Holy Ghost, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh, is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit, is spirit…FOR GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD, THAT HE GAVE HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON, THAT WHOSOEVER BELIEVETH IN HIM SHOULD NOT PERISH, BUT HAVE EVERLASTING LIFE. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.…).
Shipped in archival 16x12'' mat.
