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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 Pearl Manuscript (British Library MS Cotton Nero A X/2), also known as the Gawain manuscript, [1] is an illuminated manuscript produced somewhere in northern England in the late 14th century or the beginning of the 15th century.
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]
The surviving leaves measure at 32.5 × 29.1 cm (12 13/16 × 11 7/16 in.) [4] In full, the manuscript contained over 380 scenes. [4] It was the work of at least six different artists. [ 1 ] The book consists of paintings of events from Hebrew scripture but are given a setting in the customs and costumes of thirteenth-century France ...
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.
British Library, Add MS 11848 is an illuminated Carolingian Latin Gospel Book produced at Tours. It contains the Vulgate translation of the four Gospels written on vellum in Carolingian minuscule with Square and Rustic Capitals and Uncials as display scripts. The manuscript has 219 extant folios which measure approximately 330 by 230 mm. The ...
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 ...
The Harding Bible is a 12th-century illuminated Latin Bible created in Cîteaux Abbey during the abbacy of Stephen Harding, dated 1109.It belongs to a corpus of manuscripts illuminated in the Cîteaux scriptorium in the 12th century, most of which is now held in the public library of the city of Dijon (ms.12-15).