Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Bible
France, between 1225 and 1250
MS M.66 fol. 1r

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Within initial F, Jerome, tonsured, wearing hooded mantle, seated in chair at desk, writing with pen in right hand, holding knife with left hand. Head of animal biting bottom of initial descender. Beginning of Jerome’s epistle to Paulinus. Pen-flourished initial Q.