Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Bible
France, between 1225 and 1250
MS M.65 fol. 1r

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Within initial F, Jerome, tonsured, wearing habit (?), left hand grasping page of book open on lectern before him. Bird on top of initial; fantastic animal on descender of initial. Fish in upper margin. Beginning of Jerome’s Epistle to Paulinus. Pen-flourished initial N.