Peintures et initiales de la première [et seconde] Bible de Charles le Chauve

France. Bibliothèque nationale. Département des manuscrits, Charles II, King of France, 823-877, Omont, Henri Auguste, 1857-1940, France. Bibliothèque nationale. Manuscript (Lat. 1-2) · 1911 · Paris : Impr. Berthaud frères · 90 pictures

A facsimile portfolio issued by the Bibliothèque nationale's manuscripts department in Paris in 1911, edited by Henri Omont, reproducing paintings and initials from the ninth-century Bibles of Charles the Bald for palaeographers and manuscript scholars. Plates isolate large display letters built from interlace bands, biting animal heads and knotted panels, alongside blocks of Carolingian capitals useful for letterform and border work.

Bible · Initials · Illumination of books and manuscripts

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