Thirteenth-Century And Earlier from Les Enluminures

BOOK DESCRIPTION: VERY TINY ILLUMINATED MEDIEVAL BIBLE. In Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment, Northern France (Paris?), c. 1230-1250. Dimensions 113 x 72 mm., 512 folios, lacking at least three folios at the end with the conclusion of the Apocalypse, otherwise complete, copied in a minute gothic bookhand in two columns of 49-47 lines, SEVENTY-SEVEN PAINTED initials, FIVE HISTORIATED initials. BINDING:… Read more