The topic of our class is to learn about the bible as a book rather than a religious text. Wrapped up in this interpretation of the history of the bible as a book is the idea of the bible as an object in and of itself. Bibles have had many different styles depending on their …
As I research the two bibles, the Biblia Sacra and the Die Bibel, one thing I have come to realize is that context is the first step to understanding them. Despite these bibles having almost all of the necessary descriptive qualities to help us understand where it comes from, such as the title, date and …
Fore-edge paintings are a subtly beautiful aspect of many bibles and other rare books. The Biblia Sacra, published in 1669 in Amsterdam, and the Die Bibel, published in Leipzig, Germany, are two such bibles that display fore-edge paintings. Many books with fore-edge paintings appear gold on the edges …