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Fragmentary Codex Freerianus, contains Pauline epistles from the 5th century (designated as Washington Manuscript IV by the Freer/Sackler Gallery). [ 5 ] W: Twelve Prophets on papyri - before the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls , this was the oldest Greek manuscript of Twelve Prophets, of the 3rd century A.D. [ 6 ] (designated as Washington ...
The Gawain Manuscript, British Library MS Cotton Nero A X/2: Date: c. 1400: Place of origin: Northern England: Language(s) Middle English: Author(s) The Gawain Poet: Material: Vellum: Size: 12 centimetres (4.7 in) x 17 centimetres (6.7 in) Format: Single column: Script: Gothic textura rotunda: Contents: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl ...
The Morgan Bible is part of Morgan Library & Museum in New York (Ms M. 638). It is a medieval picture Bible.The Morgan Bible originally contained 48 folios; of these, 43 still reside in the Morgan Museum, two are in the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, one is in the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, and two have been lost. [3]
The official website for The Saint John's Bible states the following regarding the techniques used in the creation of the book: The unique aspect of the Bible is that it is a Bible for our time. It is a combination of ancient methods and materials with themes, images and technology of the 21st century and beyond.
Example of a 14th-century precious book of the foundation. The Bodmer Foundation (French: Fondation Bodmer) is a library and museum specialised in manuscripts and precious editions. It is located in Cologny, Switzerland just outside Geneva. Also known as Bibliotheca Bodmeriana (or Bodmer Library), it is a Swiss heritage site of national ...
The St. Louis Bible - The Pantocrator, God the Son, as the Creator of the universe. The Bible of St Louis, also called the Rich Bible of Toledo or simply the Toledo Bible, is a Bible moralisée in three volumes, made between 1226 and 1234 for King Louis IX of France (b. 1214) at the request of his mother Blanche of Castile. [1]
Leningrad/Petrograd Codex text sample, portions of Exodus 15:21-16:3. A Hebrew Bible manuscript is a handwritten copy of a portion of the text of the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) made on papyrus, parchment, or paper, and written in the Hebrew language (some of the biblical text and notations may be in Aramaic).
The best-known of those is a richly illuminated manuscript in the British Library, Cotton MS Claudius B.iv (from which the illustrations on this page are taken). Another copy of the text, without lavish illustrations but including a translation of the Book of Judges (hence also called the Old English Heptateuch ), is found in Oxford, Bodleian ...