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The Holkham Bible: A Facsimileby Michelle P. BrownThis celebrated medieval picture-book tells the Biblical story, with the help of illustrations of everyday 14th-century England. It is only loosely based on the Bible and includes plenty of apocryphal episodes, for example Christ 'surfing' on sunbeams as a child. The costumes, tools, weapons and buildings in the pictures give us a near documentary-style representation of many occupations in the age of Chaucer, such as dyer, smith, carpenter and midwife. This distinctive manuscript has now been carefully photographed and reproduced on special paper designed to replicate the look and feel of the original vellum. The facsimile includes Michelle's Brown's full transcript and translation of the text, and a commentary based on her unrivalled knowledge of the period. 96p of text, plus 84 pages colour facsimile (British Library 2007) 
Review Quotes"Brown weaves a lively narration around the Holkham Bible's creation and purpose... [her] affordable Holkham facsimile will stimulate further research on art, drama, literature, religion and devotion, anti-Semitism, and even technology." Adelaide Bennett, Princeton University "...an edition that will be of benefit to both scholars and their students. This is, in short, a publication that any serious academic library should own." Gerald B. Guest, John Carroll University
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