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Concluding Volume of a Bible

Unknown · 1260 · 3 pictures

A thirteenth-century illuminated manuscript volume of Pauline epistles from a large Bible, copied in Latin around 1260, probably in France, with an unknown scribe and illuminator and no named patron. The three pictures show historiated initials with gold leaf grounds, blue and red penwork, and Gothic textura text, giving a designer a model for medieval decorative lettering and framing devices.

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