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Collection: The First Four Centuries of Printed Bible Illustration
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Prothro B-466
English Bible with wood engravings.
Prothro B-192
First edition of the Danish translation of the Lutheran Bible includes illustrations from woodcuts by Erhard Altdorfer (c. 1485–1561).
06174
Low German Bible translation of the Bible with woodcuts by anonymous artists.
10601/A
As a concession to Puritan tastes, the first edition of the King James Bible has no illustrations aside from its title page, a second title page for the New Testament, a woodcut of Adam and Eve at the beginning of the genealogical tables, and a map…
AFJ8524
Baskerville's second edition of the King James Bible with engravings and illustrations. This illustrated edition was sold in installments by subscription.
AER5604
The woodcuts in this edition of the Bible are copies from Holbein's Old Testament illustrations from the 1520s.
06141
First Printed Vulgate with woodcuts throughout. Includes the typical details of Vulgate Bibles at the time: printed initials, chapter numbers, book headlines, foliation, marginal references, chapter subdivisions, and additional readers' aids.
Prothro B-290
One of the first Latin Bibles to advertise its illustrations in the title of the work. Illustrations are etchings and engravings.
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-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.
BRA1385
Clarendon Press Bible that includes engravings copied after famous old master paintings.
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-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.
10226
118 Old Testament illustrations that Holbien produced in the 1520s.
06172
Four horsemen of the apocalypse pictured together as typical of 15th century German art. The illustrations are hand-colored wood engravings.
06173
The majority of the 109 woodcuts used in this Nuremberg edition of the German Bible of 1483 originally were produced in Cologne for Heinrich Quentell's Low German Bible of c. 1478. The woodcuts were hand colored.
AEP7798
Although publication of this twelve-volume French Bible was initiated in 1789, the first year of the violent and anti-religious period of the French Revolution, the Bible was completed fifteen years later with neoclassical illustrations.
00390
Latin Vulgate and French on opposite pages. Illustrations done by Jean-Michel Moreau the Younger (1741–1814).
31463
Woodcut illustrations with hand coloring.
31462
Medieval translation of the Bible into Czech that includes rich woodcut illustrations.
BRA0930
Martin Luther's second edition German Bible, known as "Dezembertestament" or the "December Testament" includes woodcut illustrations done by Lucas Cranach the Elder.
00094/A
This Lutheran translation of the Dutch New Testament includes twenty-four etchings by Jan Luyken (1649–1712).
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).
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