For this post, I really wanted to delve further into the provenance of these texts. Luckily for me, my Bible and prayer book have hand-inscribed notes at the front of both texts noting outright that the pair was given as a wedding gift, as well as both the giver and the recipient. The Bible and …
As we move further through the semester, I am finding the dichotomy between manuscripts and modern, mass-printed Bibles extremely interesting. Over the course of a couple centuries, the landscape for these texts changed entirely. Bibles were not as ornate as they once were, or being sent to several different vendors for various adornments (bindings, jeweling, …
For my two Bibles, I chose a pair of books the Loyola Notre Dame Library has acquired. One is a King James Bible, while the other is a personal prayer book. They are essentially identical – both are about 6” by 4”, with a deep brown leather cover, covered in a gilded scroll pattern. There …