The Two Winchester Bibles
Oxford: Clarendon Press / Oxford University Press, 1981. 403/1000. Hardbound. Red cloth with gilt-embossed design; top edge gilt. xii + 150pp; 12 color plates with 192 bw illustrations. Housed in a board slipcase covered with oatmeal linen. Oversize and heavy and will require extra postage. (14 x 20 inches; 12 pounds/ 5.45 kilos). VG+, in like slipcase but with remnant of ex-lib. sticker on lower edge of slipcase. College library stamp inside front cover; no other marks; exceptional. Item #105782
This is copy number 403 of a limited edition of 1000 copies. Exquisite. The Winchester Bibles were produced in Winchester, England. The most well-known is a Romanesque illuminated manuscript from the 12th century, still in the library at Winchester Cathedral. This volume details an attempt to determine how the two 12th-century Winchester Bibles were produced and how the undertaking was shared out among different individual artists. Beautiful color plates.
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