The art of the Bible : illuminated manuscripts from the medieval world / Scot McKendrick, Kathleen Doyle
2016, 1st edition. London : Thames & Hudson. Fine copy in the original illustrated, paper-covered boards backed in gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #444191
Physical description; 336 p. : col. ill., col. facsims. ; 32 cm. Contents; One thousand years of art and beauty -- 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 Aethelstan 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 -- The origins of the British Library's collection of manuscripts. Subjects; British Library ; Catalogs. British Library. Department of Manuscripts ; Catalogs. Bible ; Illustrations ; Catalogs. Bible ; Manuscripts ; Facsimiles. Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval ; Catalogs. Illumination of books and manuscripts England London ; Catalogs. Christian art and symbolism Medieval, 500-1500 ; Catalogs. Psalters Illustrations.
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