Bifolio with Scenes from the Life of Christ
1230–1240
Source image
https://clevelandart.org/art/1933.448.2
A sheet of vellum (animal skin) folded down the center to create two leaves, or folios, is called a bifolium (plural: bifolia). This pair of bifolia originally were to have been inserted one inside the other, forming part of a large psalter, or book of the psalms. The small pa...
Manuscript
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Source image fields (4)
Terms
Technique
tempera, and gold on vellum
Medium
tempera, and gold on vellum
Genre
Manuscript
Department
Medieval Art
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