This page(3 of 3)tells the end of Neheniah. Line 13 Neheniah reforms, 13:1-31. Recto features a drawing with a castle and figure with real gold details. Apprx 6" x 4", hand painted details, edge is frayed; torn from book. Verso is a continuation of the end of nehemiah. Historiated Initial. Open Esther 1:1: Now it came to pass in the days of Ahasuerus. (this is Ahasuerus who reigned from India even into Ethiopia, over a hundred and seven and twenty provinces. 2:17 - And the King loved Esther above all the women, and she obtained grace and favor in his sight more that all the virgins... The best known book of the Middle Ages, the Latin Bible's text has survived almost word for word unchanged since early Christian times. The text of the Old Testament goes back to the Jews in Palestine centuries before Christ, and the text of the New Testament was written and assembled in the course of the first century A.D. This page is from a Thirteenth-Century Bible, a time in which, among other changes, bibles were now produced not only by monks but by professional scribes and craftsmen who now made their living from copying, decorating and selling the books. Nearly all surviving manuscripts of the of the Latin Bible belong this century.
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