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The scribe Ezra rewriting the sacred records. Codex Amiatinus, fol. 5 r. Jarrow (Britain), early 8th CE. This portrait expressly depicts the scribe Ezra, he who restored the Law to the Jewish people after the Babylonian captivity, but the arrangement of books on the bookshelves and labels visible on their spines when closely examined suggest the disposition of texts of scripture known from the library of Cassiodorus through his work the Institutiones. Accordingly, many scholars take this image to be a thinly-veiled portrait of the aged Cassiodorus himself.

Location Biblioteca Laurenziana/Florence/Italy

Unique Identifier ART2510

Type Image

Purpose Public

Size 3647px × 5283px

Photo Credit Scala / Art Resource, NY

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