Medieval Bible Leaf

This is an original leaf from a medieval manuscript pocket Bible. The 52 lines of text in double columns (10 lines per inch!) in written in Latin, in rotunda gothic script, hand written in brown ink on animal vellum. Rubricated chapter numbers, initials and marginalia are in red and blue. This leaf contains text from III Kings (I Kings) 7:32 – 8:57: angulos basis errant?” ([And the four wheels] which were at the four corners of the base, were joined one to another under the base?)This leaf, from a “portable” Bible 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.

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