Mattathias with sword raised to kill the Hellenistic Jew, here with a boar's head on a platter, in an initial from a fine Bible, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment [Northern France (Paris), mid-thirteenth century] Single leaf from a Bible, with a large initial 'E' (opening "Et factum est postquam ...", I Maccabees), in pale fawn with white penwork, enclosing Mattathias holding the Hellenistic Jew who volunteered to take his place, by the hair and in the act of killing him, on fawn and blue grounds with white foliage overlaid, small foliage sprays at corners and gold bezants, two smaller illuminated initials in same enclosing facing birds and scrolling foliage, red running titles and rubrics, double column of 53 lines, one original careless penstroke in lower margin, old water damage to head of leaf causing small losses there, else good condition, 250 by 160mm.; tipped to card mount at head The illumination here is by the Johannes Grutsch atelier, named after the canon who copied one of its Bibles in 1267 (see R. Branner, Manuscript Painting in Paris during the Reign of Saint Louis , 1977, pp. 82-86).
Mattathias with sword raised to kill the Hellenistic Jew, here with a boar's head on a platter, in an initial from a fine Bible, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment [Northern France (Paris), mid-thirteenth century] Single leaf from a Bible, with a large initial 'E' (opening "Et factum est postquam ...", I Maccabees), in pale fawn with white penwork, enclosing Mattathias holding the Hellenistic Jew who volunteered to take his place, by the hair and in the act of killing him, on fawn and blue grounds with white foliage overlaid, small foliage sprays at corners and gold bezants, two smaller illuminated initials in same enclosing facing birds and scrolling foliage, red running titles and rubrics, double column of 53 lines, one original careless penstroke in lower margin, old water damage to head of leaf causing small losses there, else good condition, 250 by 160mm.; tipped to card mount at head The illumination here is by the Johannes Grutsch atelier, named after the canon who copied one of its Bibles in 1267 (see R. Branner, Manuscript Painting in Paris during the Reign of Saint Louis , 1977, pp. 82-86).
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