Stavelot Bible
The Stavelot Bible is a
Principality of Stavelot-Malmedy of modern Belgium, and required four years to complete. It was probably the main liturgical Bible of the monastery, kept on the altar of the abbey church or in the sacristy, rather than in the library. It is one of the most important Mosan manuscripts of the last quarter of the 11th century, and shares some of its scribes and artists with the earlier Lobbes Bible and a manuscript of Josephus, in all of which a monk called Goderannus was at least a scribe, and possibly the main artist.[1] For many years it was in the Royal Library at Bamberg,[2] until it was acquired by the British Library in London,[3] where it is catalogued as Add MS 28106-28107. The pages measure 581 x 390 mm, and there are 228 and 240 leaves in the two volumes.[4]
Authorship
Both volumes of the book were written by two Benedictine monks, the
Pentateuch initials are all by the same hand.[4]
Style
The Christ in Majesty, which comes at the start of the
Gospel book
. Careful examination of the Greek keyhole pattern surrounding the Christ in Majesty will reveal clusters of triple and five dot pattern in white. The entire scheme is based (at however many removes) on the 5th century mosaic band decorating the arch of the Mausoleum of Galla Placidia, Ravenna.
See also
Notes
- ^ ISBN 0-300-06493-4.
- ^ Bradley, John William (1888). A Dictionary of Miniaturists, Illuminators, Calligraphers, and Copyists. Bernard Quaritch. pp. 46–47.
- ISBN 0-13-193507-0.
- ^ a b Cahn, 265
- ^ Dodwell, 269, and Cahn, 130 and 265
- ^ Cahn, 265; also see Dodwell
- ^ Cahn, 126-136
- ISBN 0-8020-4346-1.
- ^ NYU, Smith Lecture notes
- ^ Cahn, 130-134
- ^ Dodwell, 269-273
- ^ Cahn, 213
References
- ISBN 0-8014-1446-6
Further reading
Dynes, Wayne Robert, The Illuminations of the Stavelot Bible, Education-Garla, 1978, New York,
ISBN 0-8240-3225-X
Reprint : Routledge Revivals.
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