THE ART OF THE

ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS FROM THE MEDIEVAL WORLD

SCOT McKENDRICK KATHLEEN DOYLE

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CO CONTENTS

NOTES FOR THE READER

ONE THOUSAND YEARS OF ART AND BEAUTY

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1 THE GOLDEN CANON TABLES 30 13 THE TIBERIUS PSALTER IO4

Glimpses of Early Christian Splendour in Constantinople A Grand Christological Cycle

2 THE LINDISFARNE 36 14 THE THEODORE PSALTER IIO

Spectacular Anglo-Saxon Ornament A Byzantine Visual Commentary on the Psalms

3 THE VESPASIAN PSALTER 44 15 THE SILOS APOCALYPSE Il8

The Earliest Narrative Initials in Western Europe A Spanish Vision of the Apocalypse

4 THE HARLEY GOLDEN GOSPELS 50 16 THE STAVELOT BIBLE Il6

The Gospels Written in Gold Monumental Art

5 THE CANTERBURY ROYAL BIBLE 56 17 THE EGERTON LECTIO NARY 132

An Early Canterbury Bible Illuminating the Liturgy

6 THE MOUTIER-GRANDVAL BIBLE 6z 18 THE BURNEY GOSPELS 138

Symbolic Figurative Art An Imperial Tetraevangelion

7 THE LOTHAR PSALTER 68 19 THE PSALTER OF QUEEN MELISENDE 144

An Imperial Psalter -4 Psalter for a Crusader Queen

8 THE /ETHELSTAN GOSPELS 74 20 THE WINCHESTER PSALTER 152

A Royal Gift An Illustrated Bilingual Psalter

9 THE GUEST-COUTTS NEW TESTAMENT 80 21 THE WORMS BIBLE 160

An Illuminated New Testament from Constantinople A Romanesque Giant Bible

10 THE HARLEY PSALTER 86 22 THE FLOREFFE BIBLE 166

An Anglo-Saxon Masterpiece Visual Biblical Exegesis

11 THE OLD ENGLISH HEXATEUCH 92 23 THE ARNSTEIN BIBLE I74

The Earliest Illustrated Western Vernacular Bible A Grand Monastic Bible

12 THE HARLEY ECHTERNACH GOSPELS 98 24 THE HARLEY GREEK GOSPELS 180

Imperial Style Gospels to Aid Devotion 25 A SYRIAC LECTI ONARY 186 36 A BIBLE H1STO RIA I.E OF CHARLES V 258

A Syrian Visualization of the Gospels The Bible as History

26 THE HARLEY BIBLE MORALISEE T92 37 THE PADUAN BIBLE PICTURE BOOK 266

Royal Instruction The in Pictures

27 AN APOCALYPSE 198 38 THE KING'S BIBLIA PAUPERUM ZJZ

An English Illustrated Apocalypse The Old Testament Revealed in the New

28 A BOLOGNESE BIBLE 2O4 39 THE GREAT BIBLE OF THE

Italian Splendour KINGS OF ENGLAND 20 O

A Late Medieval Giant Bible

29 A GOSPEL LECTIO NARY OF THE

SAINTE-CHAPELLE 2IO 40 THE BIBLE HISTORIAI.F. OF CHARLES

Picturing the Gospels in Medieval Paris OF FRANCE 288

Learning Wisdom from the Bible

30 THE QUEEN MARY PSALTER 2l6

Unprecedented Psalter Illustration 41 A DUTCH HISTORY BIBLE 294

Seeing Salvation in the Netherlands

31 THE WELLES APOCALYPSE 224

Revelation in French 42 THE BIBLE HISTORIALE OF EDWARD IV 3OO

A Bible fit for a King

32 THE HOLKHAM BIBLE PICTURE BOOK 23O

The Bible in Pictures 43 THE GOSPELS OF CARDINAL

FRANCESCO GONZAGA 308

33 THE ST OMER PSALTER 236 A Renaissance Cardinal's Gospel-Book

Glorious Marginal Imagery

44 AN ARMENIAN GOSPELS 316

34 A BIBLE OF CLEMENT VII 242 Painting the Gospels in Persia

A Papal Bible

45 AN ETHIOPIAN OCTATEUCH AND GOSPELS 322

35 THE GOSPELS OF TSAR IVAN ALEXANDER 250 Reviving former Ethiopian Splendour

Slavonic Emulation of Byzantine Splendour

THE ORIGINS OF THE 'S

COLLECTIONS OF MANUSCRIPTS 3Z8

FURTHER READING 33 I

INDEX OF MANUSCRIPTS 332

GENERAL INDEX 33 3

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 335