2. Bible, Latin. Single leaf from a Parisian Bible, text comprising passages from I Timothy 5:4 to II Timothy 1:8, manuscript on vellum, in Latin, 55 lines, double-column, in black ink, in a handsome gothic miniscule script, 4-line historiated initial P showing Paul holding a scroll and a sword decorated in blue, rose and orange, heightened with gold, with broad stem on the letter and marginal extenders incorporating a dragon's head and human-headed beast wearing a pointed cap, red and blue penwork in margins, some contemporary marginalia, some within red borders, headline shaved, small stain in upper margin, slightly creased, mounted, 235 x 152mm, Paris, [c. late 1230s - 70].
est. £1000 – £1500
A small miniature with fine detail in the style of the Johannes Grusch atelier (workshop's name taken from the name of the canon who copied one of its Bibles in 1267, but was active from the late 1230s until approximately 1270). The artist associated with this workshop is known to have "made flat little figures with inked draperies of a fairly irregular sort and white heads with small features, of which the C-shaped, projecting, short bearded chin of the men and pursed mouth are characteristic. His ornament included vinescrolls that loop around themselves, as well as all manner of grotesque and hybrid monsters." - Branner. Manuscript Painting in Paris during the Reign of Saint Louis, 1977.
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