Written in a gothic hand

Bible with text from the Book of Jeremiah. 

Jeremiah 10:24-Jeremiah 13:13 

1 leaf

22mm repaired fleabite on lower right of recto

Detached leaf. Thin, smooth translucent leaf of cream-coloured vellum, with darkening along the fore and top and bottom edges. Crinkled on margins. Hair and flesh side cannot be distinguished. An oval hole nearby, apprximately 8 mm across and 15mm long, has been patched on the verso side with a piece of vellum of similar colour and texture and attached by an unkown adhesive. Pricking holes evident along the fore-edge, not along the gutter. Ruling in pale brown ink defines two text columns. 

The ink of the body text is dark brown and opaque. On the recto, near the bottom of the righthand column, one sequence is in a darker ink and possibly a different hand. Traces of abrasion, likely by a pen knife, confirm this is a correction. 

From each character a bar border of stylized ivy extends the full length of the text column. 

Recto and verso with floriated illuminated two-line initials at head of each verse in blue, pink, and gold with full-length illuminated bar borders terminating in ivy leaves. Illuminated verse numbers in blue and gold, pen-flourished in red and blue.

One capital on each face of the leaf is decorated. Gold leaf illuminates portions of the running heads, the chapter numbers, and the full-bar ivy border. 

Paris, France

Commissioned by Richard de Bury, 1287-1345
Bought by Michael of Mentmore (active 1335-1349) for St. Alban's Abbey