Picture Bible of the John Rylands Library
Publisher: Imago
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Castel Guelfo
Language: fre
Number of pages: 48
Subjects: Picture Bibles; Manuscripts; Facsimiles; Illumination of books and manuscripts; Specimens; Bible
Other titles: Bible Historiée; Bibbia di Manchester
Notes: Title from fascimilefinder.com (viewed August 15, 2019)

400 printed with arabic numerals; 99 printed with roman numerals.

The pictorial cycle in MS French 5 begins with the Creation story from the opening chapters of Genesis and continues up to the marriage of Moses to the daughter of the priest of Madian (Exodus 11:21). The scriptural events are told through a series of full-page, single-subject miniatures executed by an artist working in a late version of the 'Channel Style', a style of illumination which comes to the fore in the years around 1200 and which is found in numerous manuscripts from various regions in northern Europe. The illuminator painted only on one side of each folio, creating a series of diptychs alternating with two blank pages of vellum.

In black clamshell box.

Fine Arts Library owns number 16 of 400 copies.