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Informationen zum Autor Dr Scot McKendrick is Head of Western Heritage Collections at the British Library, and Dr Kathleen Doyle is the Lead Curator, Illuminated Manuscripts at the same institution. Scot and Kathleen edited and contributed to 1,000 Years of Royal Books and Manuscripts (2013) and, with Professor John Lowden, Royal Manuscripts: The Genius of Illumination (2011), which was shortlisted for the William M.B. Berger Prize for British Art History (2012). Together they wrote Bible Manuscripts: 1,400 Years of Scribes and Scripture (2007), and contributed to Sacred: Books of the Three Faiths: Judaism, Christianity and Islam (2007). Klappentext An extensively illustrated compendium of 45 expertly selected illuminated bibles that transport the reader through 1,000 years of history and across the Christian world. For two millennia the Bible has inspired the creation of art. Within this legacy of remarkable art and beauty, illuminated biblical manuscripts offer some of the best evidence for our understanding of early Christian painting and artistic interpretations of the Bible. Compiled and written by two internationally renowned experts, this beautiful book immerses the reader in the world of illuminated manuscripts of the Bible. Through its pictures we are transported across 1,000 years of history, passing chronologically through many of the major centres of the Christian world. Starting in Constantinople in the East, the journey moves on to Lindisfarne in the North, to imperial Aachen, back to Canterbury, then to Carolingian Tours in western France. Later we view some of the riches of Winchester, Mozarabic Spain, Crusader Jerusalem, the Meuse valley, northern Iraq, Paris, London, Bologna, Naples, Bulgaria, the Low Countries, Rome and Persia. Our journey ends in Gondar, the capital of imperial Ethiopia. Forty-five remarkable books - each a treasure in its own right - provide our itinerary through time and across continents. Together they enable us to explore and revel in the extraordinary art and beauty of illuminated biblical manuscripts, some of the finest but least-known paintings from the Middle Ages. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: One Thousand Years of Art and Beauty The Bibles 1. The Golden Canon Tables Canon Tables of Eusebius of Caesarea, in Greek Constantinople, 6th or 7th century [Turkey] Glimpses of early Christian splendour in Constantinople 2. The Lindisfarne Gospels The Four Gospels, in Latin, with added interlinear gloss in Old English Lindisfarne, c. 700 (added gloss, Chester-le-Street, c. 970) [UK] Spectacular Anglo-Saxon Ornament 3. The Vespasian Psalter Psalter, in Latin, with interlinear gloss in Old English Kent, 1st half of the 8th century [UK] The Earliest Narrative Initials in Western Europe 4. The Harley Golden Gospels The Four Gospels, in Latin Aachen?, Carolingian Empire, c. 800 [UK] The Gospels Written in Gold 5. The Canterbury Royal Bible Bible, in Latin (incomplete, now comprising the Four Gospels only) Canterbury, 1st quarter of the 9th century, [UK] An Early Canterbury Bible 6. The Moutier-Granval Bible Bible, in Latin Tours, 2nd quarter of the 9th century [France] Symbolic Figurative Art 7. The Lothar Psalter Psalter, in Latin Aachen, c. 842¿55 [Germany] An Imperial Psalter 8. The Aethelstan or Coronation Gospels The Four Gospels, in Latin Lobbes, south of Brussels, last quarter of the 9th century, or 1st quarter of the 10th century [Belgium] A Royal Gift 9. Guest-Coutts New Testament New Testament, in Greek Constantinople, middle of 10th century [Turkey] An Illuminated New Testament from Constantinople
