MINIATURIST, French
(active c. 1200 in northern France)

Commentary on the Epistles of St Paul

c. 1200
Manuscript (Cod. Lat. 668)
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris

The picture shows an initial P introducing the commentary on the epistles of St Paul by Petrus Lombardus (c. 1100-1160), a scholastic theologian and bishop of Paris (folio 150v). The initial uses the human form as a decoration independently of the content of the text.