The Oxford Bible Pictures from the Walters Art Musem: Ms. W. 106, The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore and the Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris

Noel, William

Luzern (Lucerne), Switzerland: Faksimile Verlag Luzern / The Walters Art Museum, 2004. Softcover. Orange & illus. wraps, French flaps, 136 pp., 33 color illus., 10 BW illus. VG. Item #158536
ISBN: 9780911886573

"The Oxford Bible Pictures consist of thirty-four illuminated miniatures depicting biblical events from the fall of the Rebel Angels to the Last Judgment. This is one of the few known works attributed to William de Brailes, an illuminator whose identity was only discovered in the twentieth century, and who worked in Oxford in the middle of the thirteenth century. Dazzling in their pictorial invention and sparkling in their execution, these small miniatures are superb examples of early English Gothic art. ... [The author] discusses their significance in the history of psalter illustration, their place in the work of de Brailes, and their function in the thirteenth century." (flap) Rare.