Bibles

The most printed book there is. The Vulgate, the Gutenberg Bible, Tyndale burned for translating it, Luther's German, the King James, the Geneva Bible and its footnotes, mass distribution by the Bible societies, and the translation work still going on in hundreds of languages.

Part of Books

73 moments in this segment.

  1. - Codex Sinaiticus Paralipomenon 9,27-10,11. Codex Sinaiticus, the fourth-century Greek Bible codex, one of the oldest substantially complete Christian books.
  2. - Codex Sinaiticus Petropolitanus (title). Codex Sinaiticus, the fourth-century Greek Bible codex, one of the oldest substantially complete Christian books.
  3. - Codex Sinaiticus. Pagina, GD009896. Title Codex Sinaiticus. Pagina Series EuroPhot. Art history. 4th century. Artifact EuroPhot. Kunstgeschiedenis. 4de eeuw. Artefact Extent 1 glasdia; 100 x 85 mm. Slide Language Undetermined Typographical details glass slide(s) Additional info General note: Fotograaf onbekend General note: Toegevoegde informatie op dia Biographical or historical data: Oorspronkelijke locatie/Vindplaats: Egypte, Si
  4. - Dublin Trinity College Library Long Room Book of Kells 1. The Book of Kells, the insular Gospel manuscript of about 800 now at Trinity College Dublin.
  5. - Trinity College - Book of Kells. The Book of Kells, the insular Gospel manuscript of about 800 now at Trinity College Dublin.
  6. - The book of Kells library interior 3. The Book of Kells, the insular Gospel manuscript of about 800 now at Trinity College Dublin.
  7. - Text, folio 110 (recto), from a Gospel Book with Commentaries. 1000–1100. This is a reproduction of the object itself, not a modern photograph of a building.
  8. - Gospel Book with Commentaries. 1000–1100. This is a reproduction of the object itself, not a modern photograph of a building.
  9. - Text, folio 121 (verso), from a Gospel Book with Commentaries. 1000–1100. This is a reproduction of the object itself, not a modern photograph of a building.
  10. - Leaf from a Greek Psalter and New Testament. 1084. This is a reproduction of the object itself, not a modern photograph of a building.
  11. - Solomon Schechter studying the fragments of the Cairo Genizah, c. 1898. A fragment from the Cairo Geniza, the storeroom of the Ben Ezra Synagogue that preserved roughly 400,000 discarded Jewish manuscript fragments.
  12. - Bilingual Syriac-New Persian psalter in Syriac script, Bulayik, 12th-13th century AD, paper - Ethnological Mus. A Syriac manuscript in the Aramaic script used by the Churches of the East.
  13. - Fragment of the Cairo Genizah - The Passover Haggadah, pages 3&4 plus ruler. A fragment from the Cairo Geniza, the storeroom of the Ben Ezra Synagogue that preserved roughly 400,000 discarded Jewish manuscript fragments.
  14. - Fragment of the Cairo Genizah - The Passover Haggadah, pages 1&2 plus ruler. A fragment from the Cairo Geniza, the storeroom of the Ben Ezra Synagogue that preserved roughly 400,000 discarded Jewish manuscript fragments.
  15. - Title Page of St. Gregory's "Moralia": Job Visited by His Three Friends (above) and Gregory the Great and His. (below). Switzerland, Monastery of Engelberg, 12th century. ink, tempera, and gold on vellum. Cleveland Museum of Art, c. 1143–1178. This is a reproduction of the object itself, not a modern photograph of a building.
  16. - 4Q41 2. A Hebrew biblical manuscript or scroll, the text tradition copied by hand for two millennia.
  17. - KellsFol027v4Evang. Image of Folio 27v, with the four evangelist symbols from the en:Book of Kells, a 1200 year old book. Scanned from: Meehan, Bernard; The Book of Kells': an illustrated introduction to the manuscript in Trinity College Dublin. London: Thames and Hudson, 1994. p. 8.
  18. - Initial I: Entwined Beast and Serpent: Leaf from a Bible (2 of 2 Excised Leaves). ). England, Glastonbury(?), 13th century. tempera and ink on vellum. Cleveland Museum of Art, c. 1225–50. This is a reproduction of the object itself, not a modern photograph of a building.
  19. - Partial Leaf from a Latin Bible: Initial I[n principio] with the Marriage at Cana. 13th century. ink, tempera, and gold on vellum. Cleveland Museum of Art, c. 1260–1270. This is a reproduction of the object itself, not a modern photograph of a building.
  20. - Miniature Excised from a Psalter: The Nativity. (?), 13th century. ink, tempera, and gold on vellum. Cleveland Museum of Art, c. 1270. This is a reproduction of the object itself, not a modern photograph of a building.
  21. - Bifolium from a Bible: Initial E[t factum est] with Ezekiel. Manuscript in the Cleveland Museum of Art (Medieval Art). France, Paris. Digitised image of the artefact itself; dated to the object, c. 1290.
  22. - Miniatures from a Manuscript of the Apocalypse. 1295. This is a reproduction of the object itself, not a modern photograph of a building.
  23. - Libro el ekspozicio de Matenadaran 65. An Armenian illuminated manuscript, a tradition centred on the Gospel book and now largely held at the Matenadaran in Yerevan.
  24. - Libro el ekspozicio de Matenadaran 74. An Armenian illuminated manuscript, a tradition centred on the Gospel book and now largely held at the Matenadaran in Yerevan.
  25. - Libro el ekspozicio de Matenadaran 87. An Armenian illuminated manuscript, a tradition centred on the Gospel book and now largely held at the Matenadaran in Yerevan.
  26. - Libro el ekspozicio de Matenadaran 47. An Armenian illuminated manuscript, a tradition centred on the Gospel book and now largely held at the Matenadaran in Yerevan.
  27. - Portrait of St Mark from The Four Gospels Wellcome L0022867. An Armenian illuminated manuscript, a tradition centred on the Gospel book and now largely held at the Matenadaran in Yerevan.
  28. - Hebrew Bible Spain. A Hebrew biblical manuscript or scroll, the text tradition copied by hand for two millennia.
  29. - Single Leaf from a Gospel Book with a Portrait of Saint Luke. (Ethiopia). ink and tempera on vellum. Cleveland Museum of Art, c. 1440–80. This is a reproduction of the object itself, not a modern photograph of a building.
  30. - Compendium Biblie quod et aureum alias Biblie Reportorium nuncupatur.-- - Upper cover (IA1422). Style: Unspecified; Caption: Upper cover; Colour: White / cream; Edge: Unspecified
  31. - fol. 1 recto- Psalterium.- -fol. 2 recto-- -B-Eatus vir q no abijt in consilio impiorum, etc. - Upper cover (I. Style: Panel design; Caption: Upper cover; Colour: Brown; Edge: Unspecified
  32. - Leaf from a Psalter and Prayerbook: Initial E with Ornamental Border Containing a Seated Satyr and a Bird Eati. (recto) and Ornamental Border with Flowers and Squirrel (verso) (2 of 3 Excised Leaves). North Germany, Hildesheim (?), 16th century. ink, tempera and liquid gold on vellum. Cleveland Museum of Art, c. 1524. This is a reproduction of the object itself, not a modern photograph of
  33. - Leaf from a Psalter and Prayerbook: Calendar Page with Labors (recto) and Calendar Page with Peasant (verso). ). Germany, Hildesheim (?), 16th century. ink, tempera and liquid gold on vellum. Cleveland Museum of Art, c. 1524. This is a reproduction of the object itself, not a modern photograph of a building.
  34. - The Bristol Psalter - Lower Cover (Add ms 40731). Style: Greek style (alla greca); Caption: Lower Cover; Colour: Brown; Edge: Unspecified
  35. - Ethiopian Coptic Bible Manuscript at the Museum of Catholic Art and History (Columbus, Ohio). An Ethiopian Christian manuscript in Ge’ez, written on goatskin parchment and bound in the distinctive Ethiopian wooden-board style.
  36. - Bay Psalm Book. The Bay Psalm Book (1640), the first book printed in British North America.
  37. - JCB Bay Psalm Book title page. The Bay Psalm Book (1640), the first book printed in British North America.
  38. - Bay Psalm Book, 0002v. The Bay Psalm Book (1640), the first book printed in British North America.
  39. - Buste van een oude vrouw met een liedboek in haar handen. Identificatie Titel(s): Buste van een oude vrouw met een liedboek in haar handen Objecttype: prent Objectnummer: RP-P-2015-26-818 Catalogusreferentie: kopie 2 Opschriften / Merken: verzamelaarsmerk, verso, gestempeld: Lugt 2228, verzamelaarsmerk, verso, gestempeld: Lugt 4780 Vervaardiging Vervaardiger: prentmaker: Friedrich Christian Gottlieb Geyser (mogelijk), naar prent van: Daniel Nikolaus Chod
  40. - Jewish scribe writing the Torah. A depiction or photograph of a scribe at work, copying text by hand.
  41. - Campo de'Fiori 1553 Talmud burning memorial board. Book burning, the deliberate destruction of books by fire.
  42. - St-Albans-Psalter-Faksimile-Bucheinband-Schliessen-Handarbeit. A glimpse into traditional bookbinding during the production of a facsimile: The photo shows the hand-fastening of metal clasps to the book cover. This is the final stage of the bookbinding process for the edition of the St. Albans Psalter by Müller & Schindler (Universal Art Group). The faithful reconstruction of the functional decorative elements serves to ensure tactile authenticity and to prot
  43. - Heften-Buchblock-Handarbeit-St-Albans-Psalter-Faksimile-Buchbinderei. Bookbinding, the sewn quires, boards and covering that turn printed sheets into a book. Modern photograph.
  44. - Michelle Brown on the Lindisfarne Gospels. British Library talk placing the manuscript among its related Insular treasures.
  45. - The Codex Sinaiticus. A BBC segment on the fourth-century manuscript that is the oldest surviving complete Christian New Testament.
  46. - The Washington Haggadah: the life of a Jewish book. A Met lecture following a single 15th-century Hebrew manuscript through its owners, uses and survival.
  47. - Writing a Torah scroll by hand. Scribe Julie Seltzer on the sofer's craft: parchment, quill, iron-gall ink, and a text that must be copied letter-perfect by hand, one of the few book technologies unchanged for two millennia.
  48. - The Dead Sea Scrolls digital library. The Israel Antiquities Authority launches free online access to imaged scroll fragments.
  49. - A book of psalms sells for $14.2 million. News report on the 2013 sale of a Bay Psalm Book, then a record price for a printed book at auction.
  50. - Conserving the Dead Sea Scrolls. A tour of the Lunder Center laboratory where the Dead Sea Scrolls are stabilised and stored.
  51. - Two Bay Psalm Books on show at the Library of Congress. Lecture and exhibition on the 1640 psalter and its place in early American printing.
  52. - The King James Bible. A BBC documentary on the making of the 1611 English translation and its subsequent influence.
  53. - Aethicus, Handschrift, Leipzig, Stadtbibl. Rep. I 4° 72, fol. 20v - Ausschnitt. Intertitle (III. HE DESCRIBES MANY THINGS REGARDING THE PEOPLES WHOM THE OLD TESTAMENT DOES NOT CONTAIN) in the cosmography of Aethicus, manuscript from the 1st quarter of the 9th century, in Latin script on parchment, 116 leaves, preserved in the Leipzig University Library.
  54. - Re-sewing the Book of Dimma. Trinity College Dublin conservators re-sew an early medieval Irish pocket gospel after repair and imaging.
  55. - Genizah scribes at work. Palaeographer Judith Olszowy-Schlanger reads the hands of Geniza scribes and what they reveal about medieval Jewish book production.
  56. - The Lindisfarne Gospels - Smarthistory. Smarthistory on the c. 700 Northumbrian gospel book written and painted by a single hand.
  57. - The St Cuthbert Gospel. British Library on the earliest intact European book, still in its original eighth-century binding.
  58. - Recovering erased text in the Bodmin Gospels. British Library shows multispectral imaging revealing writing scraped off a page centuries ago.
  59. - A modern scribe at work on a Torah. Short film on the rules governing Torah production, where a single mis-formed letter invalidates the scroll.
  60. - Discovering sacred texts: Judaism. The British Library presents the Torah scroll, Talmud and Haggadah as physical book forms with distinct making traditions.
  61. - Making an insular manuscript like the Book of Kells. Artist Thomas Keyes narrates the whole insular process, from making parchment and pigments to calligraphy and illumination.
  62. - The Polyglot Bible at Plantin-Moretus. The museum's own account of the Polyglot and the scholarship and financing behind it.
  63. - Fifteenth-century Latin Bible printing and distribution. A Bodleian lecture on how printed Bibles were financed, produced and distributed in the first decades of print.
  64. - The astonishing Book of Kells. Smarthistory conversation on the c. 800 gospel book, its 340 vellum folios and its dizzying ornament.
  65. - Facsimile of the book of kells-Interior of the Old Library, Trinity College, Dublin. Facsimile of the book of kells at Interior of the Old Library, Trinity College, Dublin, Medieval illuminated manuscript Modern photograph of the subject as it appears today.
  66. - The Lindisfarne Gospels - British Library. A British Library curator presents the eighth-century illuminated manuscript and the cultures that shaped it.
  67. - A virtual visit to the Cairo Genizah collection. The Bibliographical Society tours the Cambridge Genizah collection with its curators, showing fragments and how they are handled.
  68. - The Alkmaar Old English fragments. Dr Thijs Porck on the discovery of more than twenty fragments of an Old English glossed psalter.
  69. - The apocalypse-proof time capsule in the Arctic. Thomson Reuters Foundation report on the Svalbard vault, which holds software, Vatican Museum documents and artworks written to photosensitive film.
  70. - The Bay Psalm Book of 1640. Library of Congress account of the first book produced in what became the United States, printed on a press shipped from England.
  71. - The Cairo Genizah: from storeroom to scholarly revolution. How a discarded-paper store in the Ben Ezra synagogue became one of the largest medieval document caches in the world.
  72. - Codex Sinaiticus. Photo of Codex Sinaiticus in its display case in the British Library in London, England
  73. - Codex Sinaiticus: the oldest complete New Testament. Detailed manuscript talk on the 4th-century Greek Bible found at St Catherine's Monastery in Sinai, now split between four institutions, and what its corrections reveal about how the text was copied.
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