# Winchester Bible [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MINIATURIST, English]() - Date: 1151-1200 - Technique: Manuscript \(Ms. 17\) ## Commentary This manuscript of 468 folios \(580 x 396 mm\) contains the Bible in two volumes. It is illustrated by 64 initials, 46 pages are fully illuminated. In the initial prefixing the Book of Jeremiah, God is shown appearing to Jeremiah, who reels back in astonishment in the upper right-hand corner of the initial. The use of scrolls of speech is similar to modern cartoons. ## Related artworks - [Acts of the Abbots]() - [Alphonso Psalter]() - [Amesbury Psalter]() - [Anatomical figure]() - [Angels Turning the Spheres of the Universe]() - [Apocalypse]() - [Barberini Gospels]() - [Barberini Gospels]() - [Beda Venerabilis: The Life of St Cuthbert]() - [Benedictional of Archbishop Robert]() - [Bestiary and Lapidary \('the Rochester Bestiary'\)]() - [Bestiary and Lapidary \('the Rochester Bestiary'\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()