The art of the Bible : illuminated manuscripts from the Medieval world /

"This extensively illustrated new book, compiled and written by two internationally renowned experts, transports readers, by way of forty-five featured manuscripts, across the globe and through 1,000 years of history. Passing chronologically through many of the major centers of the Christian wo...

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Main Authors: McKendrick, Scot (Author), Doyle, Kathleen, 1958- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Created: New York, New York : London : Thames & Hudson ; in association with The British Library, 2016.
Subjects:
Bible > Manuscripts.
Bible > Illustrations.
Bible > Picture Bibles.
Biblia pauperum.
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval.
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Byzantine.
Psalters > Illustrations.
Illustrations.
Manuscripts.
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Table of Contents:
  • The golden canon tables: glimpses of early Christian splendour in Constantinople
  • The Lindisfarne Gospels: spectacular Anglo-Saxon ornament
  • The Vespasian Psalter: the earliest narrative initials in Western Europe
  • The Harley Golden Gospels: the Gospels written in gold
  • The Canterbury Royal Bible: an early Canterbury Bible
  • The Moutier-Grandval Bible: symbolic figurative art
  • The Lothar Psalter: an imperial psalter
  • The Æthelstan Gospels: a royal gift
  • The Guest-Coutts New Testament: an illuminated New Testament from Constantinople
  • The Harley Psalter: an Anglo-Saxon masterpiece
  • The Old English Hexateuch: the earliest illustrated Western vernacular Bible-- The Harley Echternach Gospels: imperial style
  • The Tiberius Psalter: a grand christological cycle
  • The Theodore Psalter: a Byzantine visual commentary on the Psalms
  • The Silos Apocalypse: a Spanish vision of the Apocalypse
  • The Stavelot Bible: monumental art
  • The Egerton Gospel Lectionary: illuminating the liturgy
  • The Burney Gospels: an imperial tetraevangelion
  • The Psalter of Queen Melisende: a psalter for a Crusader queen
  • The Winchester Psalter: an illustrated bilingual psalter
  • The Worms Bible: a Romanesque giant Bible
  • The Floreffe Bible: visual biblical exegesis
  • The Arnstein Bible: a grand monastic Bible
  • The Harley Greek Gospels: Gospels to aid devotion
  • A Syriac lectionary: a Syrian visualization of the gospels
  • The Harley Bible moralisée: royal instruction
  • An Apocalypse: an English illustrated apocalypse
  • A Bolognese Bible: Italian splendour
  • A Gospel lectionary of the Sainte-Chapelle: picturing the Gospels in medieval Paris
  • The Queen Mary Psalter: unprecedented psalter illustration
  • The Welles Apocalypse: Revelation in French
  • The Holkham Bible picture book: the Bible in pictures
  • The St Omer Psalter: glorious marginal imagery
  • A Bible of Clement VII: a papal Bible
  • The Gospels of Tsar Ivan Alexander: Slavonic emulation of Byzantine splendour
  • A Bible historiale of Charles V: the Bible as history
  • The Paduan Bible picture book: the Old Testament in pictures
  • The King's Biblia pauperum: the Old Testament revealed in the New
  • The Great Bible of the Kings of England: a late medieval giant Bible
  • The Bible historiale of Charles of France: learning wisdom from the Bible
  • A Dutch history Bible: seeing salvation in the Netherlands
  • The Bible historiale of Edward IV: a Bible fit for a king
  • The Gospels of Cardinal Francesco Gonzaga: a Renaissance Cardinal's gospel-book
  • An Armenian Gospels: painting the Gospels in Persia
  • An Ethiopian Octateuch and Gospels: reviving former Ethiopian splendour.

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