LOT 0608 Medieval English Bible Manuscript Leaf with…
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Early 13th century AD. A finely decorated leaf from a Latin Bible of the Old and New Testament, carefully calligraphed and ornamented in Britain at the beginning of the 13th century; the leaf is composed of two columns of 44 lines, ruled in dark ink; the text is a fine example of the popular Medieval and Renaissance gothic book-hand script, known as lettre bâtarde, and is executed in red, white, green and blue tempera, gold and liquid gold; the recto features a pigmented intra-columns decoration, comprising scrolls and geometric motives, ending with a capitalised letter; to the bottom a depiction of a monkey, shown facing and advancing right. 1.9 grams, 19.5 x 14cm (7 3/4 x 5 1/2"). From the property of a London gentleman; formerly in a UK collection, acquired in the 1990s. Depiction of wild animals and hybrid creatures were popular across medieval manuscripts, usually found on the margins of the written text.
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