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Collection: The First Four Centuries of Printed Bible Illustration
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AER5604
The woodcuts in this edition of the Bible are copies from Holbein's Old Testament illustrations from the 1520s.
AEW1008
Parallel Latin and Italian with notes in Italian and includes indexes. Included is a lithographic illustration of Samuel and Eli done by American John Singleton Copley (1738–1815).
AFJ8524
Baskerville's second edition of the King James Bible with engravings and illustrations. This illustrated edition was sold in installments by subscription.
BarrePearce
This Bible includes several chromolithographic plates, numerous monochromatic wood engravings after Doré and other artists, and a copiously illustrated dictionary of biblical terms.
BRA0269/C
Bible with woodcut illustrations including a title page with Basel arms carved from a woodblock by Hans Lützelburger after an original design by Hans Holbein the Younger (1497–1543).
BRA0930
Martin Luther's second edition German Bible, known as "Dezembertestament" or the "December Testament" includes woodcut illustrations done by Lucas Cranach the Elder.
BRA0934
Text in Syriac with introduction and part of title in Latin. A a 1562 reprint of the 1555 first edition of the Peshitta New Testament
BRA1385
Clarendon Press Bible that includes engravings copied after famous old master paintings.
BRA2390
The 1663 reprint of the Ostrog Bible of 1581, the first complete edition of the Bible in Old Church Slavonic and the first printed in Cyrillic type. This edition includes woodcut ornaments and illustrations.
BRB0113
Small-format edition of the New Testament translated into Low German from Luther's German New Testament translation.
BRB1132
The editing of this edition of the Latin Vulgate Bible was found to be incorrect and was withdrawn. Additionally, there is a controversial woodcut that caused this edition to censored.
Prothro B-01
Example of "Paris Vulgate" tradition, single-volume with books in canonical sequence. As was typical of the Paris Vulgate tradition, the only spaces allotted for illustrations were the interiors of the initials, which received either a portrayal of…
Prothro B-109
The "Hamburg Polyglot" includes the texts of the Greek Septuagint, St. Jerome's Latin Vulgate, the modern Latin versions of Sante Pagnini (Old Testament) or Thdore de Be (New Testament), and Luther's German. Unusual to other polyglot Bibles, it…
Prothro B-113
Isaiah Thomas (1749–1831) printed the first illustrated Bible in America using the King James Version for the text.
Prothro B-12
Text of GospelsinArabic, with interlinear Latin translation. Woodcut illustrations were included but might have hampered missionary efforts because Muslims were forbidden to contemplate religious images.
Prothro B-121
More than one thousand woodcut illustrations are included in this Dutch Bible. The image for the Idolatry of King Solomon was based on Lucas ven Leyden's 1514 engraving.
Prothro B-137
First critial edition of the Armenian scriptures including engravings that introduce each of the four volumes.
Prothro B-148
The woodcuts in this printing of the Geneva Bible, hand-colored in this copy, were derived from the traditional illustrations for Nicholas de Lyra's Postilla on the Bible, although his commentary is not present in this edition.
Prothro B-189
While the King James Version of the Bible avoided illustrations during the 1600s, other English Bible versions such as this Douay-Rheims version, maintained illustrations.
Prothro B-192
First edition of the Danish translation of the Lutheran Bible includes illustrations from woodcuts by Erhard Altdorfer (c. 1485–1561).
Prothro B-197
Second edition of the pocket-sized octavo Latin Bible known as the "poor man's Bible". Includes marginal chapter differences and references, a subject index, and a tabular summary of the books. Earliest printed Latin Bible with a woodcut…
Prothro B-20
Richly hand-colored, this 1511 edition of the Vulgate features hundreds of small woodcuts previously used in various fifteenth-century Venetian editions.
Prothro B-204
Gustave Doré's (1832–1883) wood engravings are featured in this French Bible. He was known for his dramatically lit night scenes and apocalyptic spectacles.
Prothro B-26
John Baskett (1665–1742) printed this Bible with multiple misprints gaining it the name "Baskett-ful of Errors" and "Vinegar Bible". Despite the misspellings, the Bible contains rich engravings.
Prothro B-28
Illustrations from incised copperplates include maps, diagrams, and other illustrations.
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