Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Bible
France, between 1250 and 1300
MS M.193 fol. 1r

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Jerome, nimbed and tonsured, as monk, seated on bench before desk, writing on parchment on the desk, below arch surmounted by cross. All within initial F, winged fantastic animal biting bottom of descender. Pen flourishing in right margin. Beginning of Jerome’s Epistle to Paulinus.