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	OUP: Descriptive Catalogue of the Medieval Manuscripts of Exeter College, Oxford: Watson
		In the first category is a splendid series of eighteen illuminated volumes of biblical commentaries which are a monument of the fifteenth-century Oxford book trade, and among the later acquisitions are several famous books: a copy of Suetonius' Vitae Caesarum owned and annotated by Petrarch, and two magnificently illuminated fourteenth-century psalters.
		Exeter College, Oxford, founded in 1314, still holds over seventy of the manuscripts it acquired during the medieval period, plus a few that were given in later years.
		This is the first catalogue of the Exeter manuscripts to be published since that of H. Coxe in 1852 which, although good for its time, no longer meets the needs of modern scholars.
	www.oup.co.uk /isbn/0-19-920192-7 (384 words)

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		Among the other manuscripts in this category especially noticeable is also the Codex aureus (the golden book), a magnificent manuscript written and illuminated in England circa 750 AD.
		The Codex gigas is on display in the Royal library.
		Most known is doubtless the Devil's Bible, or Codex gigas (the giant book).
	www.kb.se /HS/Eng/Utomn.htm (384 words)

	Margaret Manion: The Early Illuminated Gospel Book: Liturgical Sources and Influences
		Extant manuscripts and fragments of the Gospels, as well as citations by the early Fathers of the church, testify to their circulation from the second century on; but the earliest examples of illuminated Gospel Books date from the sixth century.
		Rather, as André Grabar has pointed out, these pictures belong to the category of image-signs, such as appear in the catacombs and on sarcophagi in early Christian art.
		In the Rabbula Gospels, in addition to her central role as the embodiment of the church in the Ascension and Pentecost scenes, she bears witness to the Incarnation in a full-page introductory miniature, where she is shown holding the Christ child (f.
	www.cecs.acu.edu.au /manion.htm (384 words)

	Encyclopedia: Junius manuscript
		See also History of the English Bible, Old English Bible translations {{stub}} Category:Illuminated manuscripts
		The Caedmon Manuscript, also known as the Junius Manuscript, is an Old English document copied about AD 1000 that contains biblical poetry and some illustrations.
		It was originally seen as the work of Caedmon which was described in Bede 's writings but is now thought to be the work of several writers.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Junius-manuscript (384 words)

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