Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Bible
France, Paris, ca. 1250
MS G.31 fol. 317v

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Initial H on gold background decorated with animal heads or masks and foliate and geometric ornament.
Tonsured cleric holding book face out standing below trefoil arch on gold background within initial I, decorated with winged fantastic animal terminating with foliage, hanging from lower edge of initial.
Beginning of John, Prologue, and John.