Pocket Bible Leaf On Vellum - 13th Century

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Pocket Bible leaf on vellum, 13th century

This leaf comes from a pocket bible recognizable by its little size, extreme delicacy of vellum, and fineness of calligraphy of a few millimetres size. With this new kind of bibles, that appears in early 13th century, the Holy Scriptures was able to be written in a single volume easily portable, and therefore suitable for teaching.

Text is from Alcuinian Vulgate, without Parisian distinctive features. Lines from Exodus, from chapter 16 verse 4 (...//colligat que sufficiunt per singulos dies ut temptem eum utrum ambulet in lege mea an non...) to chapter 18 verse 12 (Nunc cognovi quia magnus dominus super omnes deos eo quod superbe egerint contra eos. Obtulit ergo Iethro cog//...).

Dropped initials of chapters are alternately red and blue, with filigrees spreading on the whole page. Initial letter of each phrase is enhanced with red. Ruling sets 43 lines on two columns delimited by lead pencil lines. This leaf is typical of Parisian productions around 1250, it can be compared to Johannes Grusch workshop's (cf. Robert Branner,Manuscript painting in Paris during the reign of Saint Louis. A study of styles).

Good condition. The page has been cropped: there is no visible page numbering and running titles are cut (EXO and DUS are hardly noticeable on top of the page).