Bibliorum sacrorum pars tertia
A Latin Bible manuscript from around 1080, part three of the sacred books, held by a Swiss library and likely made for a monastic or church readership. The four pictures are historiated initials and decorated capitals, painted in blue, green and red with ink-and-wash vine scrolls on pale vellum, and a designer could take from them the interlacing foliate letterforms, the restricted three-colour palette, and the way a large initial frames a smaller block of text.
