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Saint Jerome Translating the Bible
1405–1408/9 · Ink, tempera, and gold leaf on vellum · The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Cloisters
For Saint Jerome · 30 September
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A lion sits by the desk like a house dog, and Saint Jerome bends over his book. The Limbourg brothers build his study as a rich church, and above it, in an upper storey, three prophets hold banderoles that the Met's commentary says refer to books Jerome translated. Below, he translates the Bible, a task the caption, Wendy A. Stein notes, says took fifty-five years and six months. The Met sees the brothers adding their own stamp to a traditional scene. Stein follows the tame lion through the cycle: three times on the page before, then, most traditionally, here in the study. Fifty-five years, one line at a time.
Sources: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Art of Illumination, folio 187v; read 2026-09-24 · Wendy A. Stein, 'The Story of Saint Jerome', The Art of Illumination blog, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 19 May 2010; read 2026-09-24