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Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

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Bible
France, between 1250 and 1300
MS M.193 fol. 331v

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Decorated initial N enclosing foliate vine scroll with animal head on one end, biting other end of the scroll. Beginning of Prologue to Isaiah. Isaiah: Scene, Martyrdom -- Within initial U, two executioners, each holding end of box saw in head of Isaiah, bleeding from wound in head, with joined hands, kneeling. Beginning of Isaiah.



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