The poetry and paintings of the First Bible of Charles the Bald
Original title: The poetry and paintings of the First Bible of Charles the Bald / Paul Edward Dutton and Herbert L. Kessler
first published 1997 University of Michigan Press, 1997 hardcover 137 pages
The sumptuously decorated First Bible of Charles the Bald may well be the most famous of all medieval manuscripts. The national library of France catalogs it as Number 1 among its thousands of Latin manuscripts. Despite its fame, however, the First Bible has remained a magnificent mystery, its poems largely unread and the connection between its poetry and paintings unexplored. In the first full study of its kind, Pau...
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