Biblia de Tours
Subtitle: tambien llamado Penteuco de Tours o de Ashburnham
Publisher: Patrimonio Ediciones
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Valencia
Language: lat
Number of pages: 284
Subjects: Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern); Facsimiles; Illustrations; Manuscripts; Early Christian Illumination of books and manuscripts; Paris; Ashburnham Pentateuch; Bible
Other titles: Pentateucus cum antiquissim picturis, literis uncial. saec. V; Pentateuco Ashburnham :
Work titles: Ashburnham Pentateuch
Notes: Title from label pasted on rear fly leaf.

"[T]he only codex of Late Antiquity to assemble the five books of the Pentateuch in one volume."--Commentary volume, English-languge section.

The Ashburnham Pentateuch is a 7th century Vulgate Latin illuminated manuscript which was acquired by the Bibliothèque nationale in 1888.

Full-color facsimile of the Ashburnham Pentateuch (Bibliothèque nationale de France ms. nouv. acq. lat. 2334), a late 6th or early 7th century ms., possibly of Spanish origin.

"Conhecido com os nomes de Pentateuco de Tours ou de Ashburnham por um lorde com este nome que o comprou subtraindo o mesmo à Igreja de Saint-Gatien de Tours. Realizado no scriptorium imperial de Roma por encargo da princesa Galla Placida para a educação na doutrina cristã do seu filho o imperador Valentiniano III. Bíblia já encontrava-se em Tours ao final do Século XI, numa base do que provam as pinturas murais românicas da igreja de San Julián de aquela cidade, em que de copiou a representação do Tabernáculo."--Publisher's website.

Facsimile has date 2004 (from pasted label on rear fly leaf ).

Bound in polished wooden boards in suede slipcase (42 cm); text in red and black.

Limited edition of 999 copies.

Manuscript in Latin.

Lib. copy number 261 of 999 copies.