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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Presented by the Fine Arts Department of Loyola University Maryland, students enjoyed a lecture at Loyola-Notre Dame Library by Saint John’s Bible artist, Suzanne Moore. Moore talked about the paintstaking twelve-year creation process of the Saint John’s Bible; the first illuminated, handwritten Bible commissioned by a Benedictine Monastery in 500 years. The artists focused on …
Another King James Bible in the collection is the Holy Bible including The Psalms of David in Metre, a text extremely similar to the Bible I mentioned in my previous post, but also quite different; namely, that one is from Edinburg, Scotland, while the other is from London, England. Therefore, the Scottish Bible in conversation …