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Collection: The First Four Centuries of Printed Bible Illustration
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00094/A
This Lutheran translation of the Dutch New Testament includes twenty-four etchings by Jan Luyken (1649–1712).
00390
Latin Vulgate and French on opposite pages. Illustrations done by Jean-Michel Moreau the Younger (1741–1814).
00457
Cabinet Bible with engravings after well-known old master paintings held in British collections.
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.
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" .
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.
06146
Small folio edition of the Italian translation of the Bible by Niccolò Malermi (c. 1422–1481) including woodcut illustrations.
06147
One of the first Ventian books with extensive woodcuts. This Bible has commentaries, illustrations, and diagrams.
06154
Biblical text, commentary, illustrations, and captions are featured in this biblical commentary.
06156
This 1498 edition of the Vulgate with commentaries includes numerous woodcut illustrations based on Nicholas de Lyra's interpretations.
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.
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.
06174
Low German Bible translation of the Bible with woodcuts by anonymous artists.
06857
Biblical commentary with printed woodcut illustrations of images and diagrams based on Nicholas de Lyra's Postilla.
07081
Single leaf from a German blockbook showing an illustration from the Book of Revelation. Woodblock print with hand coloring.
10226
118 Old Testament illustrations that Holbien produced in the 1520s.
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…
31462
Medieval translation of the Bible into Czech that includes rich woodcut illustrations.
31463
Woodcut illustrations with hand coloring.
31472
Unusual to other polyglot Bibles, this edition features several full-page engravings.
31503
Like many other nineteenth-century Bibles, this Bible features illustrations based on the old masters.
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.
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.
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