Medieval Bible Leaf – Hebrews 5:7 – 9:4

A lovely original leaf from a medieval manuscript pocket Bible, written in Paris c. 1240-50. In Latin gothic micro-minuscule script, ruled in red and written in brown ink in two columns of 44 lines on animal vellum. Rubricated chapter numbers, four multi-lined illuminated Lombard style initials & elegant marginalia red & blue. The gothic text is written in extremely tiny & very well formed letters, so small that there are twelve lines of text to the inch! The back (verso) contains two scribal omissions added in the margins – these omissions were to be inserted in the text & are surrounded by a red box indicating the transcription had been systematically checked for accuracy” (DeHamel, “Scribes & Illuminators,” p. 43) The book from which this leaf came was a very high-quality production, scribed in the Johannes Grusch Workshop in Paris. The calligraphy is excellent, and the vellum is of the finest style, extremely thin and very white.

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