The Maciejowski Bible, also called the Morgan Picture Bible, Crusader Bible or Shah Abbas Bible, is a medieval illuminated manuscript, a picture book Bible of which 46 folios survive. It consists of miniature paintings of events from the Hebrew Bible depicted from a Christian perspective and set in the scenery and costumes of thirteenth century France, largely illustrating stories of kings, especially King David, with its illustrations now surrounded by text added later in three scripts and five languages.
Facts
Year Created LocationMorgan Library and Museum, New York City, with two folios at the Bibliotheque nationale de France 1 Commissioned By Classification
GenreManuscript Illumination 1 Sources
1. Morgan Picture Bible, Wikipedia
Introduction, lead paragraph
The book has traditionally been thought to have been created in Paris in the mid-1240s.
Introduction, lead paragraph, patron clause
The book has traditionally been thought to have been created in Paris in the mid-1240s for Louis IX of France.
Description section, folio locations sentence
Forty-three folios are in the Morgan Library & Museum in New York City, US, with two folios in the Bibliotheque nationale de France (MS nouv. acq. lat. 2294).
Genre reference
The Maciejowski Bible, also called the Morgan Picture Bible, Crusader Bible or Shah Abbas Bible, is a medieval illuminated manuscript, a picture book Bible of which 46 folios survive.
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