Beschreibung:

Two leaves from the Interpretation of Hebrew Names from the Chudleigh Bible, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment [north east France (perhaps Arras), c. 1220-30] Two leaves, with three columns of 53 lines of a delicate French university bookhand, small initials in red or blue with undulating lines in same forming linefillers, larger initials in same with contrasting penwork, running titles ‘a’ or ‘b’ in red with blue penwork twirls at their sides, slight cockling and discolouration at edges from use, small holes in corner of one leaf, else excellent condition, 285 by 190 mm. (written space: 187 by 125 mm.) From the Bible sold by Lord Clifford of Chudleigh in Sotheby’s, 7 December 1953, lot 51, reappearing 8 July 1970, lot 104. Thereafter dispersed with leaves appearing in Quaritch cat. 1147 (1991), no. 15; Maggs cat. 1167 (1993), no. 2; and Sotheby’s, 6 December 2005, lot 16, and 8 July 2014, lots 13-14, and Christie’s first online sale of leaves earlier this year (lot 9). The parent codex was published in R. Branner, Manuscript Painting in Paris, 1977, p. 30, no. 17 (as of northern French origin related to Parisian work); see also L.M.C. Randell, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts, I, 1989, p. 43.