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In the beginning : bibles before the year 1000 / edited by Michelle P. Brown ; essays by Michelle P. Brown ... [et al.] ; with contributions from Zaza Alexidze ... [et al.].

Title
In the beginning : bibles before the year 1000 / edited by Michelle P. Brown ; essays by Michelle P. Brown ... [et al.] ; with contributions from Zaza Alexidze ... [et al.].
Publication
Washington, D.C. : Freer Gallery of Art & Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, c2006.

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Additional Authors
  • Brown, Michelle (Michelle P.)
  • Freer Gallery of Art
  • Arthur M. Sackler Gallery (Smithsonian Institution)
  • Bodleian Library.
Description
360 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps, facsims.; 27 cm.
Summary
Michelle Brown, former curator at the British Library, gathers together seventy fragile biblical treasures in this sumptuously illustrated volume that captures the development of both Bible and book, as well as a formative period of early Christian history. The book features a number of rare parchments, codices, illuminated manuscripts, and jeweled bindings, including new finds from the Monastery of St. Catherine's at Mount Sinai, Egypt, and the Niketas Bible of the 10th-century CE, one of the greatest examples of Byzantine illumination. Leading authorities in the field explore the early history of the Bible in the accompanying essays, revealing its transformation into the complex symbol of faith that it is today.
Alternative Title
Bibles before the year 1000
Subject
  • Bible > Manuscripts > History > Exhibitions
  • Bible > History > Exhibitions
  • Bible > Publication and distribution > History > Exhibitions
Genre/Form
Exhibition catalogs.
Note
  • "Published ... on occasion of the exhibition ... October 21, 2006-January 7, 2007, organized by the Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery in partnership with the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford"--T.p. verso.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 330-350) and index.
Contents
Introduction / Michelle P. Brown -- Charles Lang Freer's biblical manuscripts / Ann C. Gunter -- The Bible : the journey of the text -- Europe and the Near East, circa 800 C.E. -- Bible and book / Harry Y. Gamble -- The Christian Orient / Monica J. Blanchard -- Spreading the work / Michelle P. Brown -- The book as icon / Herbert L. Kessler -- Catalogue : discovering the Bible -- Scroll and codex : the earliest Hebrew scriptures -- The earliest Christian scriptures -- Formation and codification : the evolution of the Bible -- The earliest Christian bibles -- From Babel to Pentecost : "sacred" languages and the vernaculars -- Spreading the Word : rhe single-volume Bible -- The book as desert, the scribe as evangelist -- From eastern deserts to western isles -- Early Christian Britain and Ireland -- The book as icon -- Reference catalogue.
ISBN
  • 9781588342409 (hardcover)
  • 1588342409 (hardcover)
  • 9780934686037 (pbk.)
  • 0934686033 (pbk.)
LCCN
^^2006020112
OCLC
  • 70174887
  • SCSB-12771090
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library