Initial I: Entwined Beast and Serpent: Leaf from a Bible (2 of 2 Excised Leaves)
Unknown Artist
c. 1225–1250
Medium
tempera and ink on vellum
Dimensions
20 × 15.2 cm
Classification
Manuscript
Department
Medieval Art
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection
Accession Number
2011.52
About this artwork
Pair of Leaves from a Latin Bible: Initial I: Entwined Beast and Serpent (opening of Book of Ruth) and Initial E: Entwined Lion and Serpents (opening of the Third Book of Kings), about 1225-50 England, Glastonbury(?) Ink and tempera on vellum The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection [Cat. nos. 2 and 3 (CMA 1999.122)] This pair of leaves from the same one-volume Bible have been traditionally associated with the Benedictine abbey of Glastonbury in southwest England. It is known that the Bible once be...