Bible of San Paolo fuori le Mura

Bible of San Paolo fuori le Mura

, where it has remained since.

The manuscript contains the entirety of the Vulgate Old and New Testaments. The 334 extant folios measure 448 by 345 mm. The text was written by a scribe named Ingobert. There are 35 decorated incipit pages, four decorated canon tables. There are also 91 decorated initials throughout the book. There are 24 surviving full pages miniatures. These miniatures include a dedication portrait of Charles the Bald, a portrait of Jerome, 14 illustrations in the Old Testament, an image of Christ in Majesty, four evangelist portraits, a miniature in the Acts of the Apostles, a miniature for the Epistles of Paul, and a miniature for the Book of Revelation. One miniature, at the beginning of the Book of Job has been lost. This is the most extensive cycle of illustrations in any surviving Carolingian Bible.

References

*Walther, Ingo F. and Norbert Wolf. "Codices Illustres: The world's most famous illuminated manuscripts, 400 to 1600". Köln, TASCHEN, 2005.


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