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Collection: The First Four Centuries of Printed Bible Illustration
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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…
07081
Single leaf from a German blockbook showing an illustration from the Book of Revelation. Woodblock print with hand coloring.
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The editing of this edition of the Latin Vulgate Bible was found to be incorrect and was withdrawn.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.
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.
31503
Like many other nineteenth-century Bibles, this Bible features illustrations based on the old masters.
BarrePearce
This Bible includes several chromolithographic plates, numerous monochromatic wood engravings after Doré and other artists, and a copiously illustrated dictionary of biblical terms.
Prothro B-137
First critial edition of the Armenian scriptures including engravings that introduce each of the four volumes.
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
06169
First illustrated Bible in the history of European typography and first Bible with woodcuts.
06170
Second printing of Zainer's Bible using the same illustrations from his edition printed around 1474.
31472
Unusual to other polyglot Bibles, this edition features several full-page engravings.
Prothro B-113
Isaiah Thomas (1749–1831) printed the first illustrated Bible in America using the King James Version for the text.
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.
00457
Cabinet Bible with engravings after well-known old master paintings held in British collections.
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.
Quentell
Single leaf from Heinrich Quentell's first Bible in Low German. The illustration is from a woodblock and is hand colored. The woodblocks were used in future German Bibles.
Prothro B-28
Illustrations from incised copperplates include maps, diagrams, and other illustrations.
02435
Before 1660, most King James Versions of the Bible were not illustrated per the Puritan tradition. After the Restoration of Charles II in 1660, Puritanism declined and illustrated Bibles increased again.
06147
One of the first Ventian books with extensive woodcuts. This Bible has commentaries, illustrations, and diagrams.
06156
This 1498 edition of the Vulgate with commentaries includes numerous woodcut illustrations based on Nicholas de Lyra's interpretations.
06857
Biblical commentary with printed woodcut illustrations of images and diagrams based on Nicholas de Lyra's Postilla.
06154
Biblical text, commentary, illustrations, and captions are featured in this biblical commentary.
ADH3986
The Greek New Testament was rarely printed with illustrations, but this edition has notes from John Mill (1645–1707) and engravigns introducing the Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles.
06127
Early printed Bibles offered no accommodation for pictorial decoration aside from indented spaces for the addition of handwritten initials. This Bible's only illustration is of St. Jerome included within the space left for the intial "F" .
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).
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