Early Medieval Bible Its Production, Decoration, and Use

Name: Early Medieval Bible Its Production, Decoration, and Use
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ISBN: 9780521445405

ISBN-10: 052144540X

ISBN-13: 9780521445405

Edition: 1994

Authors: Richard Gameson

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The significance of the Bible in the life, thought and culture of the Early Middle Ages can hardly be overstated. Here eleven linked studies, embracing palaeography, history, art history, theology and textual scholarship, examine and interpret the evidence of Bible manuscripts (including gospel books and Psalters) in their cultural context from late antiquity to the thirteenth century. Subjects include the earliest Bible manuscripts, the Gospels in a missionary context, the scriptorium of Tours, the development of the early glossed Psalter, the Old Testament in tenth- and eleventh-century England, the Italian Giant Bibles, the origins of the Paris Bible, the illustration of the early Gothic…

Book details

List price: $78.99
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 2/25/1994
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 7.25" wide x 10.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.584
Language: English



Preface



The oldest manuscripts of the Latin Bible




The Royal 1. B. vii Gospels and English book production in the seventh and eighth centuries




Mass production of Early Medieval manuscripts: the Carolingian Bibles from Tours




Carolingian Bible production: the Tours anomaly




Carolingian Glossed Psalters




The Old Testament in late Anglo-Saxon England: preliminary observations on the textual evidence




The Italian Giant Bibles: aspects of their Touronian ancestry and early history




French Bibles c. 1200-30: a new look at the origins of the Paris Bible




The textual basis for visual errors in French Gothic Psalter illustration




The Bible as subject and object of illustration: the making of a Medieval manuscript, Hamburg 1255




The theology of the twelfth- and thirteenth-century Bible