LARGE INITIAL 'O', cut to shape, FROM A MONUMENTAL MANUSCRIPT BIBLE ON VELLUM [Italy, circa 1100] 138x143mm. The initial circular, made up of blue and white panels containing ropework design, with white penwork decoration, within inner and outer yellow frame. The initial encloses the letters NUS VERBI in large rustic display capitals in red ink, across 17 lines ruled in plummet. It must therefore have been cut from an extremely large early Bible. The text is the opening of the Book of Malachi Onus verbi Domini ad Israel . Framed and glazed
LARGE INITIAL 'O', cut to shape, FROM A MONUMENTAL MANUSCRIPT BIBLE ON VELLUM [Italy, circa 1100] 138x143mm. The initial circular, made up of blue and white panels containing ropework design, with white penwork decoration, within inner and outer yellow frame. The initial encloses the letters NUS VERBI in large rustic display capitals in red ink, across 17 lines ruled in plummet. It must therefore have been cut from an extremely large early Bible. The text is the opening of the Book of Malachi Onus verbi Domini ad Israel . Framed and glazed
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