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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;+VGO.DVCKS, post: 5179392, member: 110504&quot;]This is a tiny, duodecimo leaf from a French bible, likely Paris, c. 2nd quarter of the 13th century.&nbsp; Managed to get another one, from the same ms., from a British antiquities dealer.&nbsp; It was a window.&nbsp; Here are both pages of the first one, with enlargements.[ATTACH=full]1212256[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1212258[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1212260[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1212263[/ATTACH]</p><p>For the corresponding text of the Vulgate, you could go here:</p><p><a href="https://vulgate.org/ot/2chronicles_32.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://vulgate.org/ot/2chronicles_32.htm" rel="nofollow">https://vulgate.org/ot/2chronicles_32.htm</a></p><p>I&#039;m a fan of early-High Gothic, c. later 12th-mid-13th centuries.&nbsp; Very much across media.&nbsp; Not least how the same esthetic translated into calligraphy.&nbsp; (Mss. of the English chronicler Matthew Paris are one resonant collective example.)</p><p>--Thank you, this is necessarily reducible to personal taste.</p><p>Given which, along with the architecture, before and after the increasingly elaborate developments of the later 13th-15th centuries, the calligraphy follows a similar trajectory: the more angular (some might say, anal-retentative) proto-&#039;Fraktur.&#039;&nbsp; Which I for one cordially detest.</p><p>The contrast provided by this period is dramatic.&nbsp; The lettering as of the earlier 13th century is So Chill, I Need it.&nbsp; Please note the more rounded, generally more fluid letter forms.&nbsp; What you get here is Both some serious continuity with neo-Carolingian, &#039;Romanesque&#039; lettering, And ...well, something that gets to be both Gothic, and, well, Chill.</p><p>...Anyone, adherents or (Teacher, I Raise My Hand) not, is cordially invited to pray for the ongoing restoration of la Notre Dame de Paris.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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