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Numerose tavole di pagine con fregi e miniature a colori riprodotte fuori testo ed una tavola applicata a colori con ritratto di Borso D'Este. 2 Voll., cm.31x41,5,(in folio) pp. 68, 311, 292. titolo in oro e impressioni a secco ai piatti, sguardie in seta con stemma in oro. legg.ed.cartonata, dorsi con fregi in oro.
Folio 220v of the La Cava Bible. The La Cava Bible or Codex Cavensis [1] (Cava de' Tirreni, Biblioteca statale del Monumento Nazionale Badia di Cava, Ms. memb.I) is a 9th-century Latin illuminated Bible, which was produced in Spain, probably in the Kingdom of Asturias during the reign of Alfonso II.
The large manuscript contains a text of the Vulgate, bound in 2 volumes of 482 and 622 pages each.It was intended for display rather than for daily consultation. The two volumes are decorated with 35 miniatures at the head of each book, illustrating a scene from the first chapter of the book and forming small independent paintings.
The Old Testament scholar Rudolf Kittel from Leipzig started to develop a critical edition of the Hebrew Bible in 1901, which would later become the first of its kind. His first edition Biblia Hebraica edidit Rudolf Kittel (BH 1) was published as a two-volume work in 1906 under the publisher J. C. Hinrichs in Leipzig.
The Velislaus Bible or Velislav's Bible (Czech: Velislavova bible; Latin Velislai biblia picta) is an illuminated manuscript of 1325–1349. It is in effect a picture-book of the Bible, as the text is limited to brief titles or descriptions of the 747 pictures from the Old Testament and the New Testament , from the writings about the Antichrist ...
The full title is as shown in the image: Biblia / Thet är / All then Helgha Scrifft / på Swensko. Translated into English: "The Bible / That is / All the Holy Scripture / in Swedish". The men behind the translation were Laurentius Andreae and the Petri brothers Olaus and Laurentius. Of them, Archbishop Laurentius is regarded as the main ...
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 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 ...