Explaining The Bible on Instagram: "The Quedlinburg Itala fragment (Berlin, Staatsbibliothek Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Cod. theol. lat. fol. 485) is widely regarded as the oldest surviving illustrated biblical manuscript, consisting of six folios (five full leaves and one very fragmentary) from a larger 5th-century codex. Produced in Italy, likely Rome, around the 420s or 430s AD, it contains portions of the Old Latin (Vetus Latina or Itala) translation of the Old Testament, specifically fragmen