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Gabriel Bise

The Illuminated Naples Bible (Old Testament): 14th-Century Manuscript

14th-century manuscript

Crescent Books (Dec 12, 1988)

9780517282854

| Hardcover

124 pages | English

$ 7.99 | Value: $ 9.70

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Dewey 745.6/7/094573

LC Classification ND3356.5.N36 .I43

LC Control No. 79007622

Genre

Bible Reading - Illustrated

Subject

'Osterreichische Nationalbibliothek
'Osterreichische Nationalbibliothek - Illustrations
Bible
Bible. O.T
Illumination Of Books And Manuscripts, Medieval

Plot

First English edition, distributed by Crown Publishers NY . About 90 selected miniatures from codex 1911 in the National Library of Austria, a Bible produced in Naples by several scribes and four illuminators around 1360. A popular rather than a scholarly work. Each reproduction is accompanied by a narrative text by G. Bise giving the Biblical story as the picture shows it. Notes place the illumination in the mss. and identify the artist. Light wear and soiling. 124, 2 pages. cloth, dust jacket, patterned endpapers.. small 4to..