Bible du XIIIème siècle (Part 2: Proverbs – Apocalypse)
This is a thirteenth-century French illuminated Bible manuscript, dated around 1250, written in Gothic script with historiated initials and marginal decoration. Its pictures show robed figures in architectural arcades, a seated king gesturing to attendants, and a bird on a curling blue-and-gold tendril, offering a designer clear models of medieval manuscript framing, gold-leaf borders and bold ochre-and-blue palettes.
