# Book of Isaiah with Gloss [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MINIATURIST, French]() - Date: 1151-1200 - Technique: Manuscript \(Ms. A.III.17\) ## Commentary Book of Isaiah with Gloss 1180s Manuscript \(Ms. A.III.17\) Cathedral Library, Durham This glossed manuscript belonged to an English scholar in Paris, Robert of Adington, who stored a number of manuscripts \(including this one\) at the monastery of St. Victor in Paris. He later returned to England and presented his old text-books to Durham Cathedral. This is a large, well-written book, with splendid decoration including illuminated initials formed of spirals of vine stems full of tinny yellow or white lions which clamber through the decoration. The picture shows folio 4v of the manuscript. ## Related artworks - [A History of Western Saints]() - [Antiphoner]() - [Aristotle: De Interpretazione]() - [Aristotle: Works]() - [Augustinus Hipponensis: Quaestiones et locutiones in Heptateuchum]() - [Augustinus Hipponensis: Quaestiones et locutiones in Heptateuchum]() - [Augustinus Hipponensis: Quaestiones et locutiones in Heptateuchum]() - [Beatus of Liébana: Commentary on the Apocalypse]() - [Belleville Breviary]() - [Bible Historiale]() - [Bible moralisée, part I.]() - [Bible moralisée, part I.]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()