Bibliorum sacrorum pars secunda
A Latin Bible manuscript from about 1080, the second part of a sacred Bible, held by a Swiss library and digitised by e-codices, probably made for a monastic or church reading. The pictures are painted initials with interlace and scrolling white vine-like stems in blue, green and red, set beside black and red display capitals of the text. A designer could take the interlaced knotwork, tendril scrolls and the pairing of decorated letter with plain text as a model for historical initial design.
