Bible Leaf

This is an original leaf from an English manuscript pocket Bible illuminated by 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 the illuminator of the Oxford Bible). Written in Latin gothic script, in brown ink on animal vellum. The text consists of 54 lines in double columns (10 lines per inch!), with rubricated chapter numbers, initials and marginalia in red and blue. This leaf contains text from Acts 8:4 – 9:42: Igitur qui dispersi?” (They therefore that were dispersed, went about preaching the word of God?and falling on the ground, he heard a voice saying to him: Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?).A “portable” Bible, such as the one that this leaf is from, 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. This leaf is encased within a double-sided mat within a sealed plastic envelope.

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