Bible moralisée
The Bible moralisée with the title picture The Creation of the World is understood as a type of magnificently illuminated manuscripts of Gothic book illumination , in which illustrations of the Bible are compared with typologically "moralizing", that is, interpretive, images. The book type of the Bible moralisée was written around 1220/30 at the French court. The up to 2700 pictures were initially arranged with four pairs of pictures, i.e. a total of eight medallions arranged in pairs . In the Bibles moralisées , only the fronts of the parchment sheets were written on and painted.
A total of 14 manuscripts of this type have survived today. In addition to pure text manuscripts, there are richly illuminated copies, including the Codex Vindobonensis 2554 and the Codex Vindobonensis 1179 , both created around 1225 and kept in the Austrian National Library, the manuscript Ms. Bodl. 270b in Oxford, Bodleian Library , and the Bible of Louis the Saint , mostly in Toledo Cathedral .
literature
- Alexandre de Laborde : La Bible moralisée illustrée conservée à Oxford, Paris, Londres . 5 volumes, Paris 1911ff.
- Reiner Haussherr : About the selection of the Bible text in the Bible moralisée , in: Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte vol. 51, 1988, pp. 126–146.
- Bible moralisée. Codex Vindobonensis 2554 of the Austrian National Library. Facsimile in reduced form, edited and commented by Reiner Haussherr, translation of the French Bible texts by Hans-Walter Stork. Graz, Akademische Druck und Verlags-Anstalt 3 1999.
- John Lowden: The Making of the Bibles Moralisées . Pennsylvania 2000
- Eberhard König (Ed.): Bible moralisée. Magnificent manuscripts of the High Middle Ages; collected writings of Reiner Haussherr . Imhof, Petersberg 2009, ISBN 978-3-86568-168-3 .
Web links
- Warburg Institute Iconographic Database with all images from De Labordes edition and thus all miniatures of a manuscript of the Bible moralisée.