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Spanning one thousand years, this magnificent and sumptuous book considers the history and significance of 45 illuminated biblical manuscripts providing much insight into medieval Christian art. Dr Scot McKendrick is Head of Western Heritage Collections at the British Library and an expert on Judaism, Christianity and Islam, and Dr Kathleen Doyle is Lead Curator of Illuminated Manuscripts at the British Library. These two internationally renowned experts immerse the reader in a chronological history through the major centres of the Christian world. Starting in Constantinople in the East, we move on to Lindisfarne in the North, to imperial Aachen, back to Canterbury, then to Carolingian Tours in western France. We view some of the riches of Winchester, Mozarabic Spain, Crusader Jerusalem, the Meuse Valley, Northern Iraq, Paris, London, Bologna, Naples, Bulgaria, the Low Countries, Rome and Persia. The journey ends in Gondar, the capital of imperial Ethiopia. We can explore and revel in the extraordinary art and beauty of bibles like the Lindisfarne Gospel, the Vespasian Psalter, the Harley Golden Gospels, the Old English Hexateuch which is the earliest illustrated Western vernacular bible, the Tiberius Psalter with its grand Christological cycle, a Spanish vision of the apocalypse, a Romanesque giant bible called the Worms Bible, an English illustrated Apocalypse, the Holkham Bible picture book, glorious marginal imagery in the St Omer Psalter, a papal bible of Clement VII, Byzantine splendour in the Gospels of Tsar Ivan Alexander, the Bible as history of Charles V, the Paduan Bible picture book, the Great Bible of the Kings of England, a Dutch History Bible, and an Armenian Gospel among them. Exquisite calligraphy, rich colours, ornamentation, the use of gold leaf, each has a huge full page series of colour illustrations and close up details, background history, size and number of folios and origin, bibliography and notes. A beautiful Thames & Hudson publication in association with the British Library, 336pp, clothbound, pagemarker, 10" x 12¼".

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