"[Illuminated Leaf]", Anon.

This is a very old vellum leaf from a French Bible. In Paris the birth of the Bible as we know it took place around 1200 and for the first time it was bound in a single volume; the order and names of the books were standardized and the text was divided up into numbered chapters. The scribes employed headings at the top of the page and used blue and red initials to mark the beginning of each chapter. The text on this leaf is written in two columns with decorative initials with penwork in red and blue. The text is from the book Paralipomenon II, more commonly knows as Chronicles. The scribe for this sheet must have been quite tired, as there are several mistakes: he omitted a complete verse from chapters 10 and 11.

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Condition: B

A damp stain in lower blank margin and light soiling, primarily confined to blank margins.