Starting with the Italian bible, in a previous post I asked the question of why has this book been rebound with these two sections in particular. Without looking closely at the pages themselves, it could be supposed that when the bible was originally taken apart, it was one section of pages bound together and was …
I spent my first two blog posts developing the historical contexts of both a Clementine Vulgate Bible and an English Polyglot Bible, and now in this final post, I want to discuss the “human element” that composes an integral part of these Bibles as books. Before I begin, I want to preface my findings regarding …
My interest in the Fogny Bible continues in today’s blog post. One especially intriguing aspect of the Fogny Bible is the presence of handwritten marginalia, or notes, littered throughout the book. The reason I am so interested in the marginalia is because it personalizes an otherwise impersonal object. Handwritten marginalia and other marks, such as …
It’s not time to ditch the onion analogy yet. In my last post, I ended my examination of the Vulgate with a brief glimpse of two popes in the historical scene of mid-eighteenth century Italy. Before I delve into the significance of Popes Sixtus V and Clement VIII, both of whom were mentioned on the …
“Now think of these Bibles as books, as objects…” The professor for my special topics art history class has already said this phrase many times this semester, yet I don’t think I grasped the full implications of his statement until recently. When studying Bibles, it is easy to understand the religious significance that Bibles inherently …