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Vivian Bible, Isaiah 3 (folio 493)

Folio 493 of the First Bible of Charles the Bald, an extant Carolingian Vulgate manuscript from the Tours scriptorium (c. 845). Approximately corresponds to Isaiah 3 in Vulgate book order. The folio shows the actual ninth-century Latin text and decoration as it would have been read in the Carolingian court.

Vivian Bible, Isaiah 3 (folio 493)
View full resolutionPublic domain. First Bible of Charles the Bald (Bible de Vivien), Bibliothèque nationale de France, Latin 1, c. 845 AD. Image hosted by gallica.bnf.fr under their open IIIF service. Folio→chapter mapping is approximate (uniform linear interpolation across the Vulgate sequence — most folios show Latin text, only ~14 are painted full-page).Source

Depicted passages

Isaiah 3Isaiah 2

About Master C. (Vivian Bible illuminator)

Carolingian (Frankish, Tours scriptorium)

Anonymous Carolingian illuminator — known to scholars as "Maître C." — who, c. 845 at the Abbey of Saint-Martin de Tours, executed the First Bible of Charles the Bald (Bibliothèque nationale de France, Latin 1), commissioned by Count Vivien, lay-abbot of Saint-Martin. The manuscript is one of the supreme achievements of Tours-scriptorium book art.

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