2001 The Bury Bible

Description

Colour Plates, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

Illustrated with a tipped in colour frontispiece, forty-eight colour plates at 100% or 90% of their original sizing, and nineteen black-and-white supplementary plates. Collated complete. The Bury Bible is a large illustrated bible written at Bury St. Edmunds in Suffolk, England between 1121 and 1148. The book was created by an artist known as Master Hugo, influenced by Byzantine paintings, and the only surviving major work of his. It is an important example of Romanesque illumination from Norman England, with chapters on the book itself, the context, and the miniatures, alongside descriptions and commentary. Includes an index to the rear. Edited by Rodney M. Thomson, an Australian historian and Emeritus Professor of Medieval History at the University of Tasmania.