Original leaf from an English manuscript pocket Bible illuminated in the workshop of William de Brailes - one of the few 13th century English illuminators known by name! (De Brailes maintained an active workshop at Oxford c. 1238-52. He was illuminator of the Oxford Bible).
Written with brown ink in Latin gothic script on animal vellum.(185 x 135 mm - 7.4 x 5.4"). Rubricated chapter numbers, initials & marginalia in red & blue. 54 lines of text in double columns (10 lines per inch!). For sister leaf see Blackburn Collection, Cleveland Museum of Art, pl. 4. Produced in Oxford, c. 1240 A.D.
This leaf begins Psalm 88 (King James 89) 22-53, and Psalms 89-94 (KJ 90-95) complete, and opens Psalm 95 (KJ 96): ''Et concidam...'' (For my hand shall help him: and my arm shall strengthen him...Lord thou hast been our refuge from generation to generation...He that dwelleth in the aid of the most High, shall abide under the protection of the God of Jacob...It is good to give praise to the Lord...The Lord hath reigned, he is clothed with beauty...The Lord is the God to whom revenge belongeth...Come let us praise the Lord with Joy...Sing ye to the Lord a new canticle: sing to the Lord, all the earth...).
Both sides contain scribal omissions added in the margins – these omissions are surrounded by a blue box indicating that the “transcription had been systematically checked for accuracy” (De Hamel, Scribes and Illuminators, p. 43).
Presented in an archival 14x11'' mat
