Student researchers in the class The Bible as Book: From The Dead Sea Scrolls to Gideon’s Bibles were given the choice of 30 bibles to chose from within the Loyola – Notre Dame Library’s Special Collections. Of the twelve bibles selected from the collection for research, seven are from The Marion and Henry J. Knott …
The Holy Bible Containing the Old Testament and the New: Newly translated out of the Original Tongues: and with the former translations diligently compared and revised London, 1660 Printed by Henry Hills and John Field Throughout these entries we have focused on fore-edge paintings, but primarily ones centering around landscapes which was an eighteenth century phenomenon. …
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 mentioned in my previous blog post, the Scottish Bible has a double fore-edge painting of views from the German Rhine river, specifically the cities of Cologne and Heidelberg. The image of Cologne Cathedral in the fore-edge painting is particularly interesting because it features the completed cathedral which was not finished until 1880, fifty …
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 …
The Holy Bible Containing the Old Testament and the New was published in London in 1660 by Henry Hills and John Field. The date of publication for this Bible is not only an indication that it was printed, but it also means that this Bible is an example of a King James Bible, also known …