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Initial P: Saint Paul; Initial P: A Bishop Giving a Letter to a Messenger

Date

about 1280–1290

Medium

Tempera colors, gold leaf, and ink

Culture

Italian

Department

Manuscripts

Institution

Getty Museum

In the initial *P* at the top of the page, Paul passes a scroll to a messenger who will convey the author's letter to the Philippians, as a bishop, who stands between them, looks on. The monk writing on a scroll in the initial *P* at lower left suggests the manuscript's monastic origins--it was probably created in a monastic scriptorium and originally used by a community of monks in Bologna, where it was made.

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