The Holkham Bible

This edition presents the Holkham Bible Picture Book, a fourteenth-century English manuscript that tells biblical history in paired pictures and Anglo-Norman captions, from Creation through the lives of the patriarchs, the infancy and Passion of Christ, and the Last Judgment. Apocryphal episodes sit beside canonical ones, and the drawings show contemporary crafts, clothes, and tools. Michelle P. Brown supplies commentary, transcription, and translation, placing the book in London production and in the habit of pictorial Bibles. The volume is a guided presentation of one illustrated biblical narrative, not a modern novel and not a complete scholarly Bible.

Half bound in gilt decorated blue leather with leather corners and gilt blocked spine, blue buckram sides printed with a diaperwork pattern, leather front title label. Ribbon marker. Printed on Furisio paper. Dark blue endleaves. COMMENTARY VOLUME: Written by Prof. Quarter bound in light blue buckram with mid-blue paper sides and title label. 8 pages of tipped in colour illustrations. SOLANDER BOX: Covered in patterned printed paper with leather spine label.