Die Kreuzritterbibel
Subtitle: The Morgan Crusader Bible = La Bible des croisades
Publisher: Faksimile Verlag
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Luzern; New York :Pierpont Morgan Library
Language: lat; ger
Subjects: Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern); Facsimiles; Illustrations; Crusades in art; Gothic Illumination of books and manuscripts; Bible; Bibliothèque nationale de France; Pierpont Morgan Library; J. Paul Getty Museum
Other titles: Morgan Crusader Bible; Bible des croisades; Bible. Old Testament. Selections. Latin
Description: [Bd. 1] is facsim. recreation of the picture Bible of Saint Louis produced in Paris ca. 1250, the complete ms., of which 43 sheets are at the Pierpont Morgan Library, N.Y. (MS M.638); 2 sheets are at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris (Ms. nouv.acq. lat. 2294); 1 sheet is at the Jean Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles (83.MA.55).
Notes: Title from colophon of [Bd. 1].

Published in a single edition limited to 980 copies.

Facsimile and Voradruck issued together in a clear acrylic case.

Commentary ([Bd. 3]) in German, French and English.

Commentary vol. has 1 folded sheet (4 p.) in pocket in back: Diagramm / Diagram / Scheme I, by William M. Voelkle.

Includes bibliographical references ([Bd. 2], p. 39-40; Bd. 3).

Facsim. in Latin, with ms. annotations in Persian and Judaeo- Persian; commentary and translation in parallel German, English and French; ms. includes Latin texts accompanying the illuminations; in the 17th century the ms. came into the possesion of Shah Abbas the Great, King of Persia, and Persian explanations were inscribed in the margins; a later owner added commentary in Judeo-Persian.
Table of contents: title: [Bd. 1. Faksimile]; title: [ Bd. 2]. Vorabdruck des Kommentars (Auszug) / Daniel Weiss; title: [Bd. 3]. Kommentar = Commentary = Commentaire / Daniel H. Weiss ; Sussan Babaie ... [et al.].