Original leaf from a medieval manuscript Bible with illuminations from the Leber Group. Latin gothic minuscule script, hand-written in brown ink, on animal vellum.(146 x 104 mm - 5.8 x 4.2").
Rubricated chapter numbers, initials and marginalia in red and blue. 50 lines of text in double columns (13 lines per inch!). One multi-lined illuminated Lombard Style initial with elegant marginalia in red & blue.
Produced in Paris, c. A.D. 1230-40.
The back (verso) contains scribal omissions added in the right & left margins – these omissions are surrounded by a red box indicating that the “transcription had been systematically checked for accuracy” (De Hamel, Scribes and Illuminators, p. 43).
This leaf contains text from Luke 7:45 - 8:56: ''Osculum…'' (Thou gavest me no kiss; but she, since she came in, hath not ceased to kiss my feet. My head with oil thou didst not anoint; but she with ointment hath anointed my feet. Wherefore I say to thee: Many sins are forgiven her, because she hath loved much...Thy mother and thy brethren stand without, desiring to see thee. Who answering said to them: My mother and my brethren are they who hear the word of God, and do it...Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole; go thy way in peace...).
The book from which this leaf came was a very high-quality production, scribed in the Leber Workshop in Paris. The calligraphy is excellent, & vellum is of the finest style, extremely thin & very white. Other leaves from this same book were exhibited in the Jeanne Blackburn Collection at the Cleveland Art Museum pl. 5 & 6; also ref Branner 1977,61, 208-9; figs. 12, 105-10.
Shipped in archival 14x11'' mat.