Partial Leaf from a Latin Bible: Initial I[n principio] with the Marriage at Cana

c. 1260–1270 Source image
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The illuminator of this initial placed three small scenes one above another to suggest the vertical stem of the initial I, here standing for the introductory passages of the Gospel of Saint John, In principio erat verbum . . . (In the beginning was the word . . .). Such initia...

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