f. 70r: Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 002I: The Bury Bible
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- f. 70r: Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 002I: The Bury Bible
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- The Bury Bible
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- Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 002I: The Bury Bible
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- (double leaf). Frontispiece to Numbers, full-page. Double gold frame with classical leaf-pattern on black ground Two pictures. Above: Blue ground. On L. the Father nimbed, with white hair and beard, seated upon clouds (red, blue and green with jagged edges) holds a gold tablet with arched top. On R. the Son seated on similar clouds, nimbed and bearded, holds a gold staff. Each points downwards. The Father is in purple over blue, the Son in red (purplish) over orange, over green. Their mantles are edged with gold. Behind each is a green panel. Below. Blue ground with green panel in C. On L. a group of six men face R.; one leans on axe, one sits on the ground. They are the people or the spies. On R. Moses (not nimbed or horned) addresses them: behind him is Aaron and a group of six or seven elders. Aaron is older (blue-haired)
- Names have been scribbled in cent. xv on the ground, e.g. populus, Aaron, and: tome portur