De civitate Dei (The City of God)

In the lower portion of
this sumptuous illuminated border St. Augustine looks out from his book-lined study over an
exquisite landscape populated by rabbits and deer toward the City of God, its golden walls hovering in the sky. Two
elegantly posed angels guard one of the city gates, which forms the initial I
in the upper left. These illuminations are attributed to Girolamo da Cremona,
who decorated for wealthy patrons a number of luxury books printed by Nicolas
Jenson. This one bears the arms of the Mocenigo family, possibly indicating
that it belonged to Pietro Mocenigo, doge of Venice.