Medieval Bible Leaf - Thou art Peter and upon this rock...

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Original leaf from a medieval manuscript pocket Bible, written in Italy (probably Bologna), c. 1250. Latin rotunda gothic script, ruled in red & written in brown ink in two columns of 50 lines on animal vellum.(197x130mm) .

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

This leaf contains text from Matthew 14:9 – 17:11: ''Et contristatus…''(And the king was struck sad: yet because of his oath, & for them that sat with him at table, he commanded it to be given. And he sent, and beheaded John in prison…When he had commanded the multitudes to sit down upon the grass, he took the five loaves & 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…They seeing him walking upon the sea, were troubled, saying: It is an apparition…O thou of little faith, why didst thou doubtIf the blind lead the blind, both fall into the pit…I say to thee: That thou art Peter; and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. And I will give thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven…What doth it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his own soul…)

Provenance: ex-collection Otto F. Ege - Dean of the Cleveland Institute of Art & Lecturer on History of the Book in the School of Library Science, Western Reserve University. Sister leaves are # 11 in the Portfolio of Fifty Original Leaves (Gwara HL11) - see Cary Collection  - Rochester Institute (online example) and other museums.

Shipped in archival 14x11'' mat.

 

  • Inventory# IM-10963
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