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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 Anjou Bible, [1] or Bible Angevine, is an illustrated manuscript created c. 1340 in the court of King Robert I of Naples and Sicily (also known as Robert I of Anjou or Robert the Wise). The Bible consists of 344 folios with two full-page illustrations and over 80 small miniatures, dated initials, and marginal miniatures.
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]
Historian Richard Marsden notes a mediated bible: "Although it is true that there was almost no direct translation of the Bible into the vernacular before the Wycliffites, we simply cannot ignore the astonishingly large and varied corpus of Bible-based vernacular works which had begun to appear from the very early years of the 13th century onwards, under ecclesiastical influence (largely in ...
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 ...
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 Biblia pauperum (Latin for "Paupers' Bible") was a tradition of picture Bibles beginning probably with Ansgar, and a common printed block-book in the later Middle Ages to visualize the typological correspondences between the Old and New Testaments. Unlike a simple "illustrated Bible", where the pictures are subordinated to the text, these ...
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 ...