Leaf from a Bible

One leaf from the Book of Isaiah, (III-VI), from France, ca. 1250. Text is arranged into two columns and is decorated with alternating red and blue initials with contrasting penwork that extend down the margins.Illuminated vellum manuscript leaf from a portable bible in Latin. (France, ca. 1250) 146 x 95 mm. (5 3/4 x 3 3/4"). Text from Isaiah (III-VI). Double column, 49 lines, written in a tiny gothic book hand. The leaf features capitals struck with red, headlines and verse numbers in blue and red, and one-line versal initials in red or blue with marginal extensions in the same and contrasting colors. The leaf is dampstained diagonally across the upper portion, vellum a bit cockled, but a pleasing leaf nevertheless, the text still quite distinct, the vellum generally clean, and the margins especially ample