Full Description
The Codex Amiatinus and its "Sister" Bibles examines the full Bibles (Bibles containing every scriptural text that producers deemed canonical) made at the northern English monastery of Wearmouth-Jarrow under Abbot Ceolfrith (d. 716) and the Venerable Bede (d. 735), and the religious, cultural, and intellectual circumstances of their production. The key manuscript witness of this monastery's Bible-making enterprise is the Codex Amiatinus, a massive illustrated volume sent toward Rome in June 716, as a gift to St. Peter. Amiatinus is the oldest extant, largely intact Latin full Bible. Its survival is the critical reason that Ceolfrith's Wearmouth-Jarrow has long been recognized as a pivotal center in the evolution of the design, structure, and contents of medieval biblical codices.
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Contents
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Color Plates
List of Figures
List of Maps and Tables
List of Abbreviations
Maps
1 Wearmouth-Jarrow and the Context of the Codex Amiatinus
Part 1. The Wearmouth-Jarrow Bibles
1 Wearmouth, Jarrow, and Ceolfrith's Last Journey
2 The Codex Amiatinus
3 Other Wearmouth-Jarrow Biblical Manuscripts
4 Full Bibles Made for Wearmouth-Jarrow
5 The Codex Amiatinus as Bible Witness
6 Aims and Approach in this Book
7 A Case of Mistaken Identity
8 Art Historians and Amiatinus
Part 2. Bibles and Their Contexts
1 The Narrative Evidence
2 Wearmouth-Jarrow and its Environs
3 The Easter Controversy
4 Wilfrid, Theodore, Biscop, and Ceolfrith
5 The Archcantor John, Liturgy, and Monotheletism
6 Wearmouth-Jarrow, Kings, and Bishops
7 The Years 710-c.716
8 Wearmouth-Jarrow and its Bibles
2 Bede, Monasticism, and Scripture
Part 1. The Monastic Life and Scripture's Moral Teachings
1 Introduction
2 Hermits and Coenobites
3 Preaching and Teaching
4 Approaches to Scripture
5 Biblical History
6 Exploring Scripture's Figurative Senses
7 Moralizing Exegesis
8 Contexts
Part 2. Misinterpreting Scripture
1 Correcting the Errant
2 Eschatology, Easter Reckoning, and Free Will and Grace
3 Easter Reckoning
4 Grace, Free Will, and the Possibility of Innocence
5 Perspectives
3 The Wearmouth-Jarrow Full Bible Manuscripts
Part 1. The Manuscripts
1 Introduction
2 The Codex Amiatinus Biblical Manuscript
3 Amiatinus' Biblical Prefaces
4 Amiatinus' Capitula
5 The Biblical Recension
6 Writing and Text Layout in Amiatinus
7 Heterogeneity
8 Biblical Text Subdivisions and Their Articulation
9 Liturgical Texts
10 The Biblical Manuscript and Its Exemplars
11 The Canon Tables
12 The British Library Folios
Part 2. Assessing the Manuscript Evidence
1 Amiatinus, the British Library Folios, and Possible Production Sites
2 Chronology of Production
3 The Implications of the Bankes Leaf
4 The Possible Priority of the Codex Amiatinus
5 Dating Amiatinus' Biblical Manuscript
6 Dating the British Library Folios
7 The Possible Scope of Wearmouth-Jarrow Bible Production
8 A Bible for York?
9 Pandectes
4 Bibles and Reading at Wearmouth-Jarrow
Part 1. Architecture, Art, and Liturgy at Wearmouth-Jarrow
1 Introduction
2 Settings of Worship
3 Artistic Elements
4 Extra-Liturgical Reading and Meditation
5 Rome and Christology
6 The Liturgy
7 Scriptural Manuscripts at Wearmouth and Jarrow
8 Scripture in Rome's Liturgy
Part 2. Amiatinus, Liturgy, and the Sister Bibles
1 Jarrow's Foundation and Biscop's Death
2 Bibles for Reading
3 Amiatinus and Grandior
4 Writing a Sister Bible
5 Dynamic Processes of Production
6 Oriented Reading: The Roles of the Capitula
7 Amiatinus' Sister Bibles at Wearmouth and Jarrow
8 A Gift to Rome
5 The Preliminary Gathering and Painting of the Glorified Christ
1 Introduction
2 Grandior and the Christian Topography
3 Amiatinus' Preliminary Gathering by June
4 Folios 1/I Verso-4/V Recto: The Dedication and Ezra Portrait
5 Folio 3/IV: The Purple Leaf
6 Folios 2/II Verso-7/III Recto: The Wilderness Tabernacle
7 Folios 5/VI Recto, 8/VIII Recto, and 6/VII Recto: The Three Biblical Diagrams
8 Folio 6/VII Verso: The Pentateuch Cross
9 Folio 796 Verso: The Glorified Christ (Maiestas Christi)
10 The Preliminary Gathering, the Glorified Christ, Grandior, and Rome
6 A Gift for St. Peter
1 Introduction
2 Sacred Space, Sacred Unity
3 The Prophet Ezra
4 The Wilderness Tabernacle
5 The Pentateuch Cross
6 The Glorified Christ
7 Amiatinus and the Wider World
7 Connecting Past to Present
1 Introduction
2 The Wearmouth-Jarrow Bible-Making Enterprise
3 The Gift Bible
4 The Manuscripts after
5. Afterword: Commemorating the Gift to Rome Today
Appendix: Codicological Summary of the Codex Amiatinus Biblical
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Plates and Figures following page
Index
