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The text of Acts opens here with a small image of Christ blessing the Apostles (see a similar image in Baltimore, Walters Art Museum Ms. W.522, fol. 1r), fitted within an ornamented headpiece. The text itself begins without a title, and the rubrics in the upper margin are now illegible.
St. James the Brother of the Lord is portrayed here as the author of the first Catholic Epistle. He wears episcopal vestments because the tradition identifies him as the first bishop of Jerusalem. The text next to his image is not the actual text of the Epistle but an explanatory preface to it, usually attributed to the obscure fourth-century Christian author Euthalius.
Peter is recognizable here from his white hair and rounded beard. He holds a small volume that evidently contains the text of his epistles.
Unlike the image on fol. 98r, here Peter holds a scroll, a historically more accurate depiction of the original form of his epistle (letters would be rolled up, tied with a cord, and sealed).
John faces the beginning of his epistle's text, which is here entitled "Evangelic Theology of Christ." The rubric in the upper margin explains that this passage is read in church on May 8, the feast day of St. John the Apostle.
This page contains the end of the preface to the Second Epistle of John, a short table of contents for it, and the beginning of the Epistle itself. Notice that the preface and chapters list are written in capital letters, unlike the biblical text, which is in regular minuscule script.
A red decorative line marks the beginning of the Pauline Epistles (which in Byzantine manuscripts usually follow the Catholic ones). St. Paul in the miniature is easily recognizable from his balding forehead and painted beard. Notice that the scribe has embellished the first letter of his epistle (the "P" of "Paul") with a small drawing of a human face.
This epistle was sent to the Corinthian Christians by St. Paul and Sosthenes: both are portrayed in the miniature which marks the beginning of its text.
Notice the remains of a protective cloth curtain that once covered the miniature.
St. Timothy was, according to tradition, the first bishop of Ephesus and for this reason wears episcopal garments on this miniature, where he is portrayed as co-author of the Epistle of St. Paul. The two look up toward heaven, their hands raised in prayer.
On this page the miniature precedes the preface to the Epistle rather than the Epistle itself.
The miniature portrays Paul and Timothy as joint authors of the Epistle.
A group of Jews, who wear no distinctive clothing, are being told by St. Paul about Christ, who is symbolically represented in heaven.
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