Note: Descriptions of the manuscripts on this site are taken from the catalogue accompanying the exhibition, In the Beginning: Bibles Before the Year 1000 (Freer/Sackler, 2006). See the catalogue for scholarly essays, a full bibliography, and comprehensive information on all the works in the exhibition.
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Bischoff, B., 1957. “Die Kölner Nonnenhandschriften und das Skriptorium von Chelles,” in Karolingische und ottonische Kunst. Werden, Wesen, Wirkung. VI. internationaler Kongress für Frühmittelalterforschung, 1954, 395–411. Wiesbaden: F. Steiner. [Reissued in expanded form in Bischoff, 1966–81, 1:16–34.]
Blum, P., 1976. “The cryptic creation cycle in MS Junius XI,” Gesta 15:211–26.
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Broderick, H., 1983. “Observations on the method of illustration in MS. Junius 11 and the relationship of the drawings to the text,” Scriptorium 37:161–77.
Brown, M. P., 2001. “Anglo-Saxon Manuscript Production: Issues of Making and Using” in Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture, ed. P. Pulsiano and E. Traherne. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
—, 2001a. “Female book-ownership and production in Anglo-Saxon England: the Evidence of the Ninth-Century Prayerbooks,” in Lexis and Texts in Early English: Papers in Honour of Jane Roberts, ed. C. Kay and L. Sylvester, 45-68. Amsterdam: Brepols.
—, 2006. How Christianity Came to Britain and Ireland. Oxford: Lion Hudson.
Buchthal, H. and O. Kurz, 1942. A Handlist of Illuminated Oriental Christian Manuscripts, Warburg Oriental Studies 12. London: Warburg Institute. [2nd. ed., 1969.]
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Cecchelli, C., ed., 1959. The Rabbula Gospels. Olten and Lausanne: Urs Graf.
Charlesworth, J. H., 1981. The New Discoveries in St. Catherine’s Monastery. A Preliminary Report on the Manuscripts. Winona Lake, Ill.: American Schools of Oriental Research.
Choat, M. 2006. “The Unknown Work on Prophecy in the Freer Minor Prophets Codex,” The Freer Biblical Manuscripts: Fresh Studies of the Greek Biblical Manuscripts Housed in the Freer Gallery, ed. L. Hurtado. Atlanta: Society for Biblical Literature Publications.
Chojnacki, S., 2000. Ethiopian Icons: Catalogue of the Collection of the Institute of Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa University. Milan: Skira.
Clark, K. W., 1952. Checklist of Manuscripts in St Catherine’s Monastery, Mount Sinai. Microfilmed for the Library of Congress, 1950. Washington, D. C.: Library of Congress.
de Hamel, C., 1986. A History of Illuminated Manuscripts. Oxford: Phaidon. [2nd ed., London: Phaidon, 1994.]
Doane, A. N., 1978. Genesis A. A new edition. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.
—, 1991. The Saxon Genesis: An edition of the West Saxon Genesis B and the Old Saxon Vatican Genesis. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.
Evans, J. M., 1963. “Genesis B and its background,” Review of English Studies 14:1–16, 113–23.
Fischer, B., 1971. “Die Alkuin-Bibeln” Die Bibel von Moutier–Grandval: British Museum Add. Ms. 10546. Bern: Verein Schweizerischer Lithographiebesitzer.
—, 1985. Lateinische Bibelhandschriften im frühen Mittelalter, Vetus Latina. Aus der Geschichte der Lateinischen Bibel 11. Freiburg: Herder.
Fitzgerald, W., 1992. Ocelli Nominum: Names and Shelf Marks of Famous / Familiar Manuscripts. Toronto: University of Toronto / Pontifical Insititute of Mediaeval Studies.
Franz, G., ed., 1985. Trevirensia: Beiträge zur Trierer Bibliotheksgeschichte. Wiesbaden: Reichert.
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Garitte, G., 1956. Catalogue des Manuscrits Géorgiens Littéraires du Mont Sinai, Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, vol. 165, Subsidia tom. 9. Louvain: L. Durbecq.
J. Paul Getty Museum, 1991. A Thousand Years of the Bible: Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts [exhibition catalogue]. Malibu, Calif.: J. Paul Getty Museum.
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Gospel of Thomas, 1959. Coptic text ed. A. J. P. Guillaumont and others, Evangelium nach Thomas. Leiden: Brill.
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Günzburg, D. and V. Stassoff, 1886 and 1905. Ornementation des anciens manuscrits Hébreux de la Bibliothèque Impériale Publique de Saint–Pétersbourg. St. Petersburg, 1886 and Berlin: S. Calvary and Co., 1905. [Plates reissued in Narkiss, 1990]
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Hall, J. R., 1976. “The Old English epic of redemption: the theological unity of MS Junius 11,” Traditio 32:185–208.
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—, 1994. The Marian Icons of the Painter Fre Seyon: A Study of Fifteenth-Century Ethiopian Art, Patronage, and Spirituality. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.
Henderson, G., 1975. “The programme of illustrations in Bodleian MS Junius XI,” in Studies in Memory of David Talbot Rice, ed. G. Robertson and G. Henderson, 113–45. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. [Repr. in G. Henderson, Studies in English Bible Illustration 1:138–83. London: Pindar Press, 1985]
—, 1987. From Durrow to Kells, the Insular Gospel-books 650Ð800. London: Thames & Hudson.
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Kamil, M., 1970. Catalogue of all Manuscripts in the Monastery of St. Catharine on Mount Sinai. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz.
Kenyon, F. G., ed., 1935–58. The Chester Beatty Biblical Papyri: Descriptions and Texts of Twelve Manuscripts on Papyrus of the Greek Bible, Fasc.V: Numbers and Deuteronomy, Text (London: Emery Walker, 1935); Fasc. V: Numbers and Deuteronomy, Plates (Dublin, Hodges Figgis, 1958).
—, 1939. Our Bible and the Ancient Manuscripts, 4th ed. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode.
Ker, N. R., 1957. Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon. Oxford: Clarendon Press. [Reissued with Supplement, 1990]
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Leloir, L., 1963. Saint Ephrem, Commentaire de l’Evangile concordant, texte syriaque (Manuscrit Chester Beatty 709), Chester Beatty Monographs 8. Dublin: Hodges Figgis.
—, 1990. Saint Ephrem, Commentaire de l’Evangile concordant, texte syriaque (Manuscrit Chester Beatty 709), Folios additionels, Chester Beatty Monographs 8(b). Louvain: Peeters.
Leroy, J., 1964. Les manuscrits syriaques à peintures conservés dans les bibliothèques d’Europe et d’Orient: contribution à l’étude de l’iconographie des églises de langue syriaque, 2 vols., Bibliothèque archéologique et historique 77. Paris: P. Geuthner.
Lowden, J., 1999. “The Beginnings of Biblical Illustration,” in Imaging the Early Medieval Bible, ed. J. Williams, 9–59. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press.
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Lucas, P. J., 1979. “On the blank Daniel-cycle in MS. Junius 11,” Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 42:207–13.
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—,1994. Exodus. Rev. ed. Exeter: Exeter University Press.
—, ed., 2000. Franciscus Junius, Caedmonis monachi paraphrasis poetica Genesios ac praecipuarum sacrae paginae historiarum, abhinc annos M.LXX. Anglo–Saxonicè conscripta, et nunc primum edita, Early Studies in Germanic Philology 3. Amsterdam and Atlanta: Rodopi.
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