Illuminated books of the Gospels and the Bible, from the Insular masterpieces of Ireland and Northumbria to the oldest surviving Ethiopian Gospels, a great Romanesque Bible and early illustrated copies of Genesis. A work belongs here when the cited article calls it a Gospel book, a Bible or a copy of Genesis. It excludes books of hours, psalters and secular texts. The group follows the text the cited article names. Many were made in monastery workshops, and the group follows the text the cited article names for the book.
Gospel Books and Bibles
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Trinity Apocalypse (Wikipedia)
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The Trinity Apocalypse is an illuminated manuscript containing the Book of Revelation, a commentary on Revelation and a biographical sketch of Saint John.
Book of Durrow (Wikipedia)
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The Book of Durrow is an illuminated manuscript gospel book dated to c. 700 that contains the Vulgate Latin text of the four Gospels, with some Irish variations, and other matter, written in Insular script, and richly illustrated
Lindisfarne Gospels (Wikipedia)
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The Lindisfarne Gospels (London, British Library Cotton MS Nero D.IV) is an illuminated manuscript gospel book in the Latin language produced probably around the years 715-720 in the monastery at Lindisfarne, off the coast of
Garima Gospels (Wikipedia)
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The Garima Gospels are three ancient Geʽez manuscripts containing all four canonical Gospel Books, as well as some supplementary material like lists of Gospel chapters.
Codex Amiatinus (Wikipedia)
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The Codex Amiatinus, also known as the Jarrow Codex, is considered the best-preserved manuscript of the Latin Vulgate version of the Christian Bible.
Winchester Bible (Wikipedia)
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The Winchester Bible is a Romanesque illuminated manuscript produced in Winchester between 1150 and 1175.
Vienna Genesis (Wikipedia)
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The Vienna Genesis (Vienna, Austrian National Library, cod. theol. gr. 31), designated by siglum L (Ralphs), is an illuminated manuscript, probably produced in Syria in the first half of the 6th century.
Cotton Genesis, Wikipedia
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The Cotton Genesis (London, British Library, Cotton MS Otho B VI) is a 4th- or 5th-century Greek Illuminated manuscript copy of the Book of Genesis.
Morgan Bible (Wikipedia)
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It is a picture book Bible of which 46 folios survive, with two thought to be missing.
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