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Early printed Bibles offered no accommodation for pictorial decoration aside from indented spaces for the addition of handwritten initials. This Bible's only illustration is of St. Jerome included within the space left for the intial "F" .

Example of "Paris Vulgate" tradition, single-volume with books in canonical sequence. As was typical of the Paris Vulgate tradition, the only spaces allotted for illustrations were the interiors of the initials, which received either a portrayal of…

First illustrated Bible in the history of European typography and first Bible with woodcuts.
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