THE FIERY FURNACE, historiated initial on a bifolium from a Giant Bible [Spain, probably Castile, c.1300]
394 x 270mm. 33 lines in two columns, ruled space: 250 x 70mm, pinpricks survive, headings in red and blue, two historiated initials and one illuminated initial (light smudging to one of the historiated initials, some marginal staining). The text runs from Ezechiel 47:6, ‘[...] dixit ad me certe vidisti [...]’ to 48:11‘[...] de filiis Sadoch qui cus[todierunt]’ and Jerome’s prologue to the book of Daniel, ‘[iudi]cis non satis moveor [...]’ to Daniel 2:8, ‘Respon[dit rex]’.
THE FIERY FURNACE, historiated initial on a bifolium from a Giant Bible [Spain, probably Castile, c.1300]
394 x 270mm. 33 lines in two columns, ruled space: 250 x 70mm, pinpricks survive, headings in red and blue, two historiated initials and one illuminated initial (light smudging to one of the historiated initials, some marginal staining). The text runs from Ezechiel 47:6, ‘[...] dixit ad me certe vidisti [...]’ to 48:11‘[...] de filiis Sadoch qui cus[todierunt]’ and Jerome’s prologue to the book of Daniel, ‘[iudi]cis non satis moveor [...]’ to Daniel 2:8, ‘Respon[dit rex]’.
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