Leaf from the Bohun Bible, a monolithic Lectern Bible, manuscript in Latin on parchment [England (East Anglia, perhaps Cambridge), c. 1340s] Single vast leaf, with double column of 22 lines in a rounded English gothic bookhand (with Ecclesiasticus 24:43-25:28) with significant lateral compression of lines, capitals touched in hairline penwork, running titles and versal initials in blue and red, two small gold initials on blue and dark pink grounds heightened with white, one large initial I in burnished gold on bi-coloured grounds, and with fleshy foliate terminals emerging from head and foot, early foliation 91 and prickmarks for ruling frame visible, one small flaw with original repair, a small hole in border and flaw to outer lower edge of border with corner section missing, overall in excellent condition with wide and clean margins and on high quality heavy parchment, 450 by 310mm. The parent volume of this leaf was most probably part of a four volume set, with the first volume perhaps now British Library MS. Royal I.E.IV, with a miniature of Jerome writing. On a stylistic basis links have been made to the surviving parts of these volumes and other manuscripts made for the Bohun family, earls of Hereford, whose main estates were in East Anglia (L. Sandler, Gothic Manuscripts, 1285-1385, 1986, no. 132). Other single leaves and collections of leaves in the Bodleian (MS. Bib. Lat.b.4) include inscriptions of three Early Modern Cheshire families, and these have led to connections being made between the Benedictine Priory of St. Radegunds, Cambridge (suppressed in 1496 to establish Jesus College), and most recently the Carmelite Friary in Chester. The surviving leaves are listed by C. de Hamel in Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in New Zealand Collections, 1989, pp. 93-5, and in an updated form extensively discussing their provenance by the same author in The Bohun Bible Leaves, in Script & Print, Bulletin of the Bibliographical Society of Australia & New Zealand, 32 (2008), where the present leaf is listed as last offered by Quaritch cat. 1270 (2000), no. 24.
Leaf from the Bohun Bible, a monolithic Lectern Bible, manuscript in Latin on parchment [England (East Anglia, perhaps Cambridge), c. 1340s] Single vast leaf, with double column of 22 lines in a rounded English gothic bookhand (with Ecclesiasticus 24:43-25:28) with significant lateral compression of lines, capitals touched in hairline penwork, running titles and versal initials in blue and red, two small gold initials on blue and dark pink grounds heightened with white, one large initial I in burnished gold on bi-coloured grounds, and with fleshy foliate terminals emerging from head and foot, early foliation 91 and prickmarks for ruling frame visible, one small flaw with original repair, a small hole in border and flaw to outer lower edge of border with corner section missing, overall in excellent condition with wide and clean margins and on high quality heavy parchment, 450 by 310mm. The parent volume of this leaf was most probably part of a four volume set, with the first volume perhaps now British Library MS. Royal I.E.IV, with a miniature of Jerome writing. On a stylistic basis links have been made to the surviving parts of these volumes and other manuscripts made for the Bohun family, earls of Hereford, whose main estates were in East Anglia (L. Sandler, Gothic Manuscripts, 1285-1385, 1986, no. 132). Other single leaves and collections of leaves in the Bodleian (MS. Bib. Lat.b.4) include inscriptions of three Early Modern Cheshire families, and these have led to connections being made between the Benedictine Priory of St. Radegunds, Cambridge (suppressed in 1496 to establish Jesus College), and most recently the Carmelite Friary in Chester. The surviving leaves are listed by C. de Hamel in Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in New Zealand Collections, 1989, pp. 93-5, and in an updated form extensively discussing their provenance by the same author in The Bohun Bible Leaves, in Script & Print, Bulletin of the Bibliographical Society of Australia & New Zealand, 32 (2008), where the present leaf is listed as last offered by Quaritch cat. 1270 (2000), no. 24.
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