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. It has been since 1575 in the Parker Library of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, with the shelf-mark Cambridge CCCC M 2.
It is an important example of Romanesque illumination from Norman England

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. *
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.

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