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The Bury Bible is a giant illustrated Bible written at Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk, England between 1121 and 1148, and illuminated by an artist known as Master Hugo.[1] It is also the only surviving major work by Master Hugo.[2] Since 1575 it has been in the Parker Library of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, with the shelf-mark Cambridge CCCC M 2.[3]

Bury Bible - F1v - Frater Ambrosius

It is an important example of Romanesque illumination from Norman England, and bears comparison with other giant bibles produced in England in the 12th century such as the Dover Bible (also in the Parker Library), Lambeth Bible, Rochester Bible, and the Winchester Bible.[4]

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 of the original 44 painted initials have been preserved.[5][6][7]

The preserved portion of the Bible is bound in 3 volumes, with dimensions 52.2 cm high by 36 cm wide. They contain 357 folios in total.[5]

References

  1. ^ R. M. Thomson, 'The date of the Bury Bible reexamined', Viator, 6 (1975), 51–8.
  2. ^ McLachlan, Elizabeth Parker (1 January 1979). "In the Wake of the Bury Bible: Followers of Master Hugo at Bury St. Edmunds". Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes. 42 (1): 216–224. doi:10.2307/751094. ISSN 0075-4390.
  3. ^ C. M. Kauffmann, "The Bury bible (Cambridge, Corpus Christi College , MS. 2" Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, no/ 29, 1966, p. 60-81
  4. ^ M. Kauffmann: Romanesque Manuscripts 1066-1190. Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in the British Isles. London, Boston 1975, pp. 86ff.
  5. ^ a b Rodney M. Thomson, The Bury Bible [Facsimile] Boydell Press, 2002, 102 p. (ISBN 978-0851158556)
  6. ^ Elizabeth Parker McLachlan, "In the Wake of the Bury Bible: Followers of Master Hugo at Bury St. Edmunds", Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, vol. 42, 1979, p. 216-224
  7. ^ A. Heslop, 'The production and artistry of the Bury Bible', Bury St Edmunds: medieval art, architecture, archaeology, and economy, ed. A. Gransden (1998), pp 172–85

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