Bible Leaf (Vienna Moralized Workshop)

This is an original leaf from a French manuscript pocket Bible. Written in Latin gothic script, in brown ink on animal vellum. Rubricated chapter numbers, initials and marginalia are in red and blue. Extensive prick holes, which were used as a ruling guide, are evident along one side. The text consists of 55 lines of text in double columns (10 lines per inch). This originates from the Vienna Moralized Bible Workshop. And was also part of the ex-collection of Sir Sydney Cockrell. This leaf contains the text from Osee (Hosea) 2:2 – 8:1: Iudicate materem?” (Judge your mother?Hear ye this, O priests, and hearken, O ye house of Israel, and give ear, O house of the King: for there is a judgment against you?).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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