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English: Plate from Palæography: Notes upon the History of Writing and the Medieval Art of Illumination.


THE FIRST PAGE OF GENESIS.
In a Latin Bible, written probably in England about 1290-1300.


The text is in the second column, with the illuminated initial I down the centre.
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Source https://archive.org/details/palographynote00quarrich
Author Bernard Quaritch.

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