Title: The art of the Bible : illuminated manuscripts from the Medieval world /
Authors: McKendrick, Scot; Doyle, Kathleen, 1958-; Thames and Hudson; British Library
Year: 2016
Subjects: Bible Manuscripts.; Bible Illustrations.; Bible Picture Bibles.; Biblia pauperum; Biblia pauperum; Bible; Psalters; Illumination of books and manuscripts, Byzantine; Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval; Illumination of books and manuscripts, Byzantine; Psalters Illustrations.; Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval; Illuminierte Handschrift; Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval.; Facsimiles.; Illustrated works.; Manuscripts.
Abstract: "This extensively illustrated new book, compiled and written by two internationally renowned experts, transports readers, by way of forty-five featured manuscripts, across the globe and through 1,000 years of history. Passing chronologically through many of the major centers of the Christian world, from Constantinople and imperial Aachen to Canterbury, Mozarabic Spain, Crusader Jerusalem, northern Iraq, Paris, London, Bologna, and Rome, Scot McKendrick and Kathleen Doyle shed light on some of the finest but least-known paintings from the Middle Ages, and on the development of art, literature, and civilization as we know it."--
Contents: 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 Æthelstan 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.