Raymond de Gramat

Raymond de Gramat was apostolic administrator of the Abbey of Monte Cassino from 9 April 1326 until his death on 26 July 1340, and his name survives chiefly through a book.

Around 1330 he probably commissioned a deluxe Vulgate of 507 folios, made in Naples, where Pietro Cavallini had been active since 1308. The more than 250 miniatures at the page bottoms are perhaps by Cavallini or his workshop. His library inventory called it a biblia pulcra, a beautiful bible.

After his death Pope Benedict XII acquired it and in 1341 sent it to the papal library at Avignon. After 1378 the antipope Clement VII painted over its original coat of arms with his own, and the manuscript is now known as the Clement Bible.