Leo Bible
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The Leo Bible (Rome, Vatican, Bib. Apostolica, MS. Reg. gr. 1) is a Byzantine illuminated manuscript dated to the mid 10th century, making it one of the earliest surviving Byzantine Bibles.[1][2] Though only one volume survives, a preface and an intact contents page tell us that the Bible originally contained both the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament.[3][4] Due to its association with the Macedonian Renaissance it is often grouped along with the stylistically similar Paris Psalter and Joshua Roll.[4][5] A prefatory poem indicates that the volume was commissioned by one Leo Patrikios, and so it is also known as the Bible of Leo the Patrician (Bibel des Patricius Leo).[6][7]