Clement’s decor

Each book of this Bible starts with a heavily decorated page including historiated initial and a rich marginal decor that usually includes at least one character standing or sitting among the vines and another inhabiting a medallion and whose distinct characteristic is to be prominently draped in a robe.

Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits, Latin 18.

Fol. 18v.
Biblia Clementis VII papae.
Biblia Clementis VII papae.
Source: gallica.bnf.fr

Biblia Clementis VII papae.
Biblia Clementis VII papae.
Source: gallica.bnf.fr

Fol. 427v.
Biblia Clementis VII papae.
Biblia Clementis VII papae.
Source: gallica.bnf.fr

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