The Illuminated Naples Bible (Old Testament): 14th-Century Manuscript

by Gabriel Bise, G. Irvins (Translator), D. Macrae (Translator)

First English edition, distributed by Crown Publishers NY . About 90 selected miniatures from codex 1911 in the National Library of Austria, a Bible produced in Naples by several scribes and four illuminators around 1360. A popular rather than a scholarly work. Each reproduction is accompanied by a narrative text by G. Bise giving the Biblical story as the picture shows it. Notes place the illumination in the mss. and identify the artist. Light wear and soiling. 124, 2 pages. cloth, dust jacket, patterned endpapers.. small 4to..

124 pages, Hardcover

First published December 12, 1988