Initial I: Entwined Beast and Serpent: Leaf from a Bible (2 of 2 Excised Leaves)

Initial I: Entwined Beast and Serpent: Leaf from a Bible (2 of 2 Excised Leaves)

c. 1225–1250 · England, Glastonbury?, 13th century

tempera and ink on vellum

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