Bury Bible

The Bury Bible is a giant illustrated Bible written at Bury Saint Edmunds between 1121 and 1148, and illuminated by an artist known as Master Hugo . [1] It has been since 1575 in the Parker Library of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, with the shelf-mark Cambridge CCCC M 2. [2]

Bury Bible - F1v - Frater Ambrosius

It is an important example of Romanesque illumination from Norman England   [3]

Description

Only the first part of the original two-volume work has been preserved. Twelve pictures were painted on parchment on separate pages and then incorporated into the work; six remain. . 42 or the origina 44 painted initials have been preserved.[4] [5] * [6]

The preserved portion oft he Bible is bound in 3 volumes, with dimensions 52.2 height by 36 cm wide. They contain 357 folios in total. [4]

References
  1. R. M. Thomson, ‘The date of the Bury Bible reexamined’, Viator, 6 (1975), 51–8.
  2. C. M. Kauffmann, "The Bury bible (Cambridge, Corpus Christi College , MS. 2" Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, no/ 29, 1966, p. 60-81
  3. M Kauffmann: Romanesque Manuscripts 1066-1190. Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in the British Isles . London, Boston 1975, pp. 86ff.
  4. Rodney M. Thomson, The Bury Bible [Facsimile] Boydell Press, 2002, 102 p. (ISBN 978-0851158556)
    • Elizabeth Parker McLachlan, " In the Wake of the Bury Bible: Followers of Master Hugo at Bury St. Edmunds", Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, vol. 42, 1979, p. 216-224
  6. . A. Heslop, ‘The production and artistry of the Bury Bible’, Bury St Edmunds: medieval art, architecture, archaeology, and economy, ed. A. Gransden (1998), 172–85


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