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Commentary on the Epistles of St Paul

1164
Illumination on parchment
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris

This manuscript, once belonged to the Corbie Abbey, contains a commentary by Florus on the Epistles of St Paul. It is dated 1164 and signed by the scribe Johannes Monoculos. The long descender of the first illuminated initial includes in the foliage little roundels of a monk, with his name Richard, who presumably supervised the commission, and of the artist, a layman, seated at a sloping table, with his name above him, Felix.