![ST PAUL, opening his Epistle to the Thessalonians, historiated initial on a bifolium from a Giant Bible [Spain, probably Castile, c.1300]](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2016/CKS/2016_CKS_12139_0105_000(st_paul_opening_his_epistle_to_the_thessalonians_historiated_initial_o094856).jpg?w=1)
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ST PAUL, opening his Epistle to the Thessalonians, historiated initial on a bifolium from a Giant Bible [Spain, probably Castile, c.1300]
394 x 268mm. 33 lines in two columns, ruled space: 250 x 70mm, pinpricks survive, headings in red and blue, two historiated initials and two illuminated initials (minor loss of pigment to initials, some cockling and staining). The text runs from Philippians 1:7, ‘[...] confirmatione evangelii socios [...]’ to Philippians 2:18, ‘[...]et vos gaudete et [...]’ and 1 Thessalonians 4:13, ‘[nolu]mus autem vos ignorare [...]’ to 2 Thessalonians 1:5, ‘[...] in exemplum iusti iudicii Dei ut [...]’.
394 x 268mm. 33 lines in two columns, ruled space: 250 x 70mm, pinpricks survive, headings in red and blue, two historiated initials and two illuminated initials (minor loss of pigment to initials, some cockling and staining). The text runs from Philippians 1:7, ‘[...] confirmatione evangelii socios [...]’ to Philippians 2:18, ‘[...]et vos gaudete et [...]’ and 1 Thessalonians 4:13, ‘[nolu]mus autem vos ignorare [...]’ to 2 Thessalonians 1:5, ‘[...] in exemplum iusti iudicii Dei ut [...]’.