f. 1v: Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 002I: The Bury Bible
- Title:
- f. 1v: Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 002I: The Bury Bible
- Section:
- The Bury Bible
- Manuscript:
- Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 002I: The Bury Bible
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Page details
- Full page initial to Jerome's Prologue
- At top in red
- Rubric: Incipit epistola beati Ieronimi presbiteri ad paulinum in omnibus diuine hystorie libris
- Incipit: Frater Ambrosius
- The letters after the initial being red, blue, crimson and green capitals. The page is framed in double bands of gold between which are acanthus and vine patterns of classical aspect In the stalk of the F are three medallions framed in gold, and with grounds of dark red representing: a. A centaur galloping, with long green shield, and lance with pennon. b. A man in cap and cloak, his R. foot gone, wearing a wooden leg attached to his knee, running after a hare which he is clipping with shears. c. A mermaid holding two fishes. Below this a man with basket gathering grapes. The main ground of the letter is blue, and it consists of conventional foliage in gold, red, green, pink, purple, blue, in which are introduced bearded human heads with gold horns, a man with a mace, white birds, and two splendid purple apes, drawn from the life. The whole work is magnificent. The leaf is a double one