Unknown maker, historiated initial from a Bible, circa 1160s, Los Angeles ... circa 1131–1165”; Thomas Kren, French Illuminated Manuscripts in the J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty ...

The small bible - handwritten in Latin and just 17cm high - is an illustrated manuscript, so the first letter of each book of the bible is lavishly decorated, often with figures. The Sarum Master ...

The Moutier-Grandval Bible, an illustrated ninth-century masterpiece considered one of the finest manuscripts in the world, is back in Switzerland, where it miraculously survived the ages in ...