Bible Leaf

Bible Leaf

French, 13th century

Language: Latin

Single leaf

height 40.5 cm
width 26.5 cm

Portland Museum of Art, Gilkey Center Collection No. 60.9

Wilma Fitzgerald, PhD, SP - Quoted with permission from an unpublished study

Vetus Testamentum. I Sam. / I Reg. 1, 1-28 cum prologo s. Hieronymi. Saec. XIII in. France. One leaf 405 x 265 (290 x 185) mm., written in two columns of 50 lines. On the verso a miniature of two crowned figures before city gates (70 x 70 mm.) in initial P[rimus]. Ascender with winged beast at center on verso divides the two columns. Leaves headed: L[iber] I and [Re]gus [Regum]. Purchased from the Caroline Ladd Pratt Fund.

// [Prologus sancti Hieronymi. Viginti et duas esse litteras apud Hebraeos] ... bresith quem nos Genesim dicimus secundus Ellesmoth qui Exodus appellatur tertius Vagectri id est Leuiticus .../... et silui a bonis. Explicit prologus. Incipit primus liber Regum I Fuit uir unus de Ramathaim sophim de monte Ephraim .../... accomodatus domino et adoraverunt ibi dominum. Et orauit Anna et ait: [Exultauit cor meum in Domino] //