# Codex Amiatinus [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MINIATURIST, Italian]() - Date: 0701-0750 - Technique: Manuscript \(Ms. Amiatinus 1\), 505 x 340 mm ## Commentary Codex Amiatinus before 716 Manuscript \(Ms. Amiatinus 1\), 505 x 340 mm Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence This manuscript of 1.029 folios contains the Bible in Latin. It is a copy of a manuscript made in Calabria in the middle of the 6th century for the renowned Cassiodorus, minister to the Ostrogoth king, Theodoric. The copy originates from the Abbey of Jarrow-Monkwearmouth in Northumbria; it was probably illuminated by an Italian living there. The Bible is illustrated by a two-page schematic representation of the temple in Jerusalem and 2 full-page miniatures. The picture shows folio 5r with the prophet and learned scribe Ezra writing in a codex. ## Related artworks - [Alessandro Cortesi: Poem]() - [Antiphonary]() - [Antiphonary]() - [Antiphonary]() - [Antiphoner]() - [Antiphoner]() - [Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics]() - [Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics]() - [Armiranda]() - [Aulus Gellius: Noctes Atticae]() - [Averulino: On the Architecture]() - [Baldo Martorelli: Grammar]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()