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The Eighth Plague (Plague of Locusts)

Scribe: William de Brailes (British, active ca. 1230)
Created: ca. 1230-1250
Medium: ink, paint, and gold on parchment
Dimensions: 5 3/16 x 3 15/16 in. (13.2 x 10 cm)

Folio Number: 9r

Format: full-page miniature; h.: 10.0 cm, w.: 7.2 cm

Script: Gothic bookhand

Period: Medieval

Country: United Kingdom

Language: French

Provenance: Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1903 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Credit Line: Acquired by Henry Walters, 1903
Accession No. W.106.9R