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The Bible moralisée was a type of illustrated Bible manuscript from the 13th and 14th centuries. These manuscripts contained thousands of illustrations but little text. In addition to illustrations depicting the literal biblical narratives, they also included typological and moral illustrations to provide a pictorial commentary on the Bible. Several examples of surviving manuscripts are listed that can be viewed online through libraries in Oxford, Paris, Heidelberg, and via an online Warburg Institute database.

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Bible Moralisee - Adam and Eve PDF

The Bible moralisée was a type of illustrated Bible manuscript from the 13th and 14th centuries. These manuscripts contained thousands of illustrations but little text. In addition to illustrations depicting the literal biblical narratives, they also included typological and moral illustrations to provide a pictorial commentary on the Bible. Several examples of surviving manuscripts are listed that can be viewed online through libraries in Oxford, Paris, Heidelberg, and via an online Warburg Institute database.

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Bible moralise The Bible moralise is a special type of illustrated Bible manuscripts which has survived in very copies

from the thriteenth and fourteenth centuries. The manuscripts contain little if any text, but are lavishly decorated with very many (up to 14,000) illustrations. In addition to illustrations that show the literal meaning of the biblical narrative, other illustration express the so-called typologica and moral meaning (hence Bible moralise), providing a kind of pictorial Bible comment. Source: 1. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Bodley 270b, fol. 7va; 2. Paris, BnF, ms. franais 166, here at fol. 10r (detail); 3. Paris, BnF, ms. franais 167, here at fol. 3v (detail). 4. Paris, BnF, ms. franais 9561, fol. 8v; 5. Heidelberg, Universittsbibliothek, Cod. Pal. germ. 16, fol. 12r. Paris, BnF fr. 166 and 167 are available online at www.gallica.bnf.fr, the other Bibles moralises via an online database of the Warburg Institute. Editions: Alexandre de Laborde, La Bible moralise illustre conserve Oxford, Paris et Londres. Reproduction intgrale du manuscrit du XIIIe sicle, accompagne de planches tires de Bibles similaires et dune notice, 4 vols., Paris 191121. Literature: Mary-Catherine Bodden, Language as the site of revolt in Medieval and early modern England: speaking as a woman (The New Middle Ages), New York 2011, at 4653 [for the image of the serpent]; Christopher DeHamel, The book: a history of the Bible, Oxford 2001 [Bible moralise]. 1a. Oxford, Bodleian, Bod. 270b fol. 7va (detail)

1b. Oxford, Bodleian, Bod. 270b, fol. 7v

2. Paris, BnF ms fr. 166, fol. 10r (detail)

Sed et serpens erat callidior cunctis animantibus terre qui dixit ad mulierem

Or estoit le serpent la plus chaude beste des autres par lequel lennemi dist a la femme

Now the serpent was the warmest of the beasts of the earth by which the enemy said to the woman [Literal translation of the peculiar French]

Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman [English Standard]

3. Paris, BnF ms fr. 167, fol. 3v (detail)

4. Paris, BnF ms fr. 9561, fol. 8v

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