The Matsievsky Bible is a unique handwritten Bible , commissioned by the King of France Louis IX of Saint , who went down in history as the inspirer and leader of two Crusades - the Seventh and Eighth .
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| Other names | Morgan Bible, Louis IX Bible, Crusader Bible |
| Date of writing | 1240-1250 |
| Original language | Latin (appeared in the fields in 1300) |
| Genre | Holy Bible |
| Volume | 46 parchment sheets |
| First edition | France , Paris |
| Manuscripts | Ms M. 638, MS nouv. acq. lat. 2294, MS 16 |
| Original | Pirpont Morgan Library (Ms M. 638), 2 sheets - National Library of France (MS nouv. Acq. Lat. 2294), 1 sheet - Getty Museum (MS 16) |
Content
- 1 Name
- 2 Contents
- 3 History of the book
- 4 Literature
- 5 Links
Title
Until 1608, the book was kept in the collection of the archbishop of Gnieznensky and the primacy of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Cardinal Bernard Matsievsky , which is why it was called the “Matsievsky Bible”. It is also called the Bible of Louis IX or the Bible of the Crusader. In the English-language tradition, the book is often referred to as the Morgan Bible.
Contents
The manuscript contains 283 illustrations for the first books of the Bible from Creation to the reign of David (First Book of Kings). The cycles of miniatures highlight the life of the kings of Saul and David . The manuscript is unique in that it contains 21 large illustrations of battle scenes, written in all details, reflecting the realities not of biblical times, but of the wars of the Middle Ages.
Book History
The creation of the manuscript dates back to 1240 - 1250 years . The fate of the book in the XV-XVI centuries is unknown, it is only known that at the beginning of the XVII century it belonged to Cardinal Matsievsky, who in 1604 handed over the manuscript of the papal delegation on a visit to the Persian Shah Abbas I the Great , who received a precious book as a gift.
The Shah ordered a Persian translation of most Latin explanatory inscriptions. So the Persian text appeared in the Bible. Later, Judeo-Persian (written in the Persian language in the Hebrew alphabet) inscriptions were added.
Several other details about the owners of the book appear in the 19th century. Sir Thomas Philipps bought it from a Greek named Jonas Athanasiou , and the descendants of Philips eventually sold it to John Pieront Morgan, an American billionaire. Matsievsky’s Bible is now in the New York Library of The Pierpont Morgan Library .
Literature
- Biblical translations // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
- Hourihane, Colum (ed.), Between the Word and the Picture, Princeton Index of Christian Art, Princeton, 2005
- Cockerell, Sydney C. and John Plummer (1969), Old Testament miniatures: a medieval picture book with 283 paintings from Creation to the story of David (New York: G. Braziller) [contains reproductions of all paintings in the Morgan Bible.]
- Noel, William and Daniel Weiss, eds. (2002), The Book of Kings: Art, War, and the Morgan Library's Medieval Picture Bible (Baltimore: Walters Art Museum). [catalog of recent exhibition]
- Jafari Mazhab, Mohsen: Ketab Moqaddse San Looyi dar Esfahan [Saint Louis`s Bible in Isfahan] "in Ketab Mah Tarikh va Joghrafia , no 13, Tehran: nov. 1998 [in Persian]