Biblia de Moutier-Grandval

London BL - Moutier-Grandval Bible, Additional MS 10546, fol. 5v - This one-volume Bible of the entire Vulgate as revised by Alcuin of York (d. 804) is one of three surviving illustrated copies produced in Tours at the Benedictine abbey of St Martin. It was probably made during the abbacy of either Adalhard (834-843) or Vivien (843-851) (see McKitterick, Carolingian Bible, 1994) or slightly earlier in the transition period between abbacies of Fridigus (807-834) and Adalhard (see Die Bibel…

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London BL - Moutier-Grandval Bible, Additional MS 10546, fol. 5v - This one-volume Bible of the entire Vulgate as revised by Alcuin of York (d. 804) is one of three surviving illustrated copies produced in Tours at the Benedictine abbey of St Martin. It was probably made during the abbacy of either Adalhard (834-843) or Vivien (843-851) (see McKitterick, Carolingian Bible, 1994) or slightly earlier in the transition period between abbacies of Fridigus (807-834) and Adalhard (see Die Bibel…

The Medieval and Earlier Manuscripts Blog is written by curators in the British Library's Department of History and Classics. It publicises all aspects of the Library's work on western manuscripts produced before 1600, including our digitisation and cataloguing projects, exhibitions and publications.

BIBLE DE MOUTIER-GRANDVAL: miniature de l'Exode - ENLUMINURE CAROLINGIENNE, 7) LES ECOLES DE COUR DE CHARLES LE CHAUVE ET DE LOTHAIRE, 2: Le directeur de l'école de la cour de Charles le Chauve est JOHANNES SCOTUS ERIUGENA, qui formule la théorie artistique destinée à arrêter les concepts esthétiques de l'ensemble du Moyen-Age. C'est l'abbaye de Tours qui prend la tête de l'enluminure sous l’abbé ADALHARD (834-843) et le COMTE VIVIEN (844-851).

О Каролингском Ренессансе: " Западная Церковь приняла важнейшее решение. Она решила переориентироваться с византийских императоров на полуварваров —...

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From the Moutier-Grandval Bible c.830-840

Deuteronomy erases the separation between leader and led; for better or for worse, they’re yoked together.