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West Dereham Bible, folio 173v
12th century, second half
The Library of Trinity College Dublin
Dublin, Ireland
The second part of a two-volume bible, The West Dereham Bible contains decoration of the highest quality featuring historiated initials in colour and gold. Folio 173v features the Epistle of Paul to the Galatians and Paul the Apostle can be seen in the historiated initial P.
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- Title: West Dereham Bible, folio 173v
- Date Created: 12th century, second half
- Location: England
- Original Language: Latin
- Subject Keywords: Illuminated Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Medieval, Bible, Bible. Epistles of Paul--Theology, Manuscripts, Latin
- External Link: View this item in our online catalogue
- Collection: Illuminating the Middle Ages
- Catalogue Number: TCD MS 51
- Bibliography: M.R. James, 'A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Library of Corpus Christi College Cambridge' 1, (Cambridge, 1912), 97; A. Souter, 'Pelagius’s Expositions of Thirteen Epistles of St Paul', Texts and Studies 9.1, (Cambridge, 1922), 344; E.G. Millar, 'English Illuminated Manuscripts from the Xth to the XIIIth Century', (Paris and Brussels, 1926), 40, 43; H.H. Glunz, 'History of the Vulgate in England from Alcuin to Roger Bacon', (Cambridge, 1933), 177; N.R. Ker, 'Medieval Libraries of Great Britain', second edition, Royal Historical Society, (London, 1964), 57; W. Cahn o.c. 192, 205 n.36 and 'Romanesque Bible Illumination', (Ithaca, New York, 1982), 259-260; C.M. Kauffmann, Romanesque Manuscripts 1066-1190, (London and Boston, 1975), 115; R.W. Hunt in Medieval Scribes Manuscripts & Libraries: Essays Presented to N.R. Ker, edd. M.B. Parkes and A.G. Watson, (London, 1978), 252 n.7; Thomson o.c. 1:32, 54, 61-62, 121-122, 2: pls. 227-229, 233-234; Eleen o.c. 52. 83v (detail) is illustrated in black and white in The Normans in Norfolk, Sue Margeson, Fabienne Seillier, Andrew Rogerson (Norwich: Norfolk Museums Service, 1994), p. 60 (the caption and the text are on the same page but add nothing), figure 63. Exhibited in 'The Norman treasures of Norfolk', Norwich Castle Keep, Norfolk from September 1994 to January 1995.
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