Pair of leaves from an illuminated 13th Century Bible. Hand written text is black with hand painted decorative details in red and blue ink. Measures apprx 4" x 6". The best known book of the Middle Ages, the Latin Bible's text has survived almost word for word unchanged since early Christian times. The text of the Old Testament goes back to the Jews in Palestine centuries before Christ, and the text of the New Testament was written and assembled in the course of the First Century A.D. This page is from a Thirteenth-Century Bible, a time in which, among other changes, bibles were now produced not only by monks but by professional scribes and craftsmen who made their living from copying, decorating and selling the books. Nearly all surviving manuscripts of the of the Latin Bible belong this century.
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