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The Codex Amiatinus and its âSisterâ Bibles: Scripture, Liturgy, and Art in the Milieu of the Venerable Bede
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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 WearmouthJarrow 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 monasterys 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 Ceolfriths WearmouthJarrow 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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Celia Chazelle teaches at The College of New Jersey. She is author of The Crucified God in the Carolingian Era (Cambridge, 2001) and has edited and co-edited multiple volumes on medieval topics, including Why the Middle Ages Matter (New York, 2011). She was elected Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America in 2019.
"Celia Chazelle is to be warmly congratulated for offering what can justly be described as the first comprehensive account of this monument of early medieval book production, putting knowledge about Codex Amiatinus, Wearmouth-Jarrow and its biblical culture on a new footing. Potential users--and there ought to be many--should be aware that, notwithstanding the many helpful subdivisions into which the text is organised, this is not a work that can easily be skimmed or sampled. On the contrary, a proper understanding of any individual point presupposes reading the book in its entirety".
Richard Gameson, in The Medieval Review, August 2020.
"Les publications de Celia Chazelle sur le Christ cruci ou bien la thologie de la liturgie (en particulier deleucharistie) sont bien connues des mdivistes et appartiennent sans aucun doute la catgorie des lectures indispensables. Le livre publi parla. en 2019 sur un monument majeur de la thologie, de la liturgie et delhistoire delart duh aut Moyen ge fera lui aussi date et simposera rapidement comme unclassique indispensable au prs des mdivistes de tout bord. [...] .Louvrage dont il est question ici est un vritable modle du genre, o toutes les hypothses proposes par la., sur la base darguments trs solides et parfaitement dmontrs,emportent ladhsion sans rserve aucune. [...] Ce livre nest en aucun cas une monographie sur le clbre codex Amiatinus aujourdhui conserv Florence (Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, ms. Amiatino 1) ralis au VIIe-VIIIe s. au monastre anglais de Wearmouth-Jarrrow. Se situant bien au-de l dune monographie classique consacre un manuscrit qui se contenterait de passer successivement en revue la codicologie, le texte et les enluminures, C. Chazelle prend appui sur ce manuscrit cl et ce quelle appelle avec lgance ses bibles surs pour offrir au lecteur un panorama dune rare acuit sur la thologie, la liturgie et la pense chrtienne dans le monde anglo-saxon dans le haut Moyen ge. [...] Le livre de C.Chazelle est tous gards une grande russite o les hypothses et arguments, servis par une remarquable rudition,emportent ladhsion".
ric Palazzo, in Cahiers de Civilisation Mdivale, 2020.
"In the first comprehensive monograph on the Codex Amiatinus (Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, MS Amiatino 1), Celia Chazelle has richly contextualized and proposed a new chronology for the series of full Bibles produced at Wearmouth-Jarrow in the early decades of the eighth century. The author considers not only the Codex Amiatinus, the best-known and only complete surviving Wearmouth-Jarrow Bible, but also the British Library Folios, the surviving remnants of at least two large-scale sister Bibles produced at Wearmouth-Jarrow, and five additional smaller format part-Bibles from the same context. [...] Chazelles volume will most assuredly become essential reading on the Codex Amiatinus".
Carol Neuman de Vegvar, in Speculum, 96 (3), July 2021.
"What makes Celias Chazelles book, The Codex Amiatinus and Its Sister Bibles: Scripture, Liturgy, and Art in the Milieu of the Venerable Bede, stand out from the many others on Amiatinusincluding a slew of works that celebrated 1,300th anniversary of Coelfriths departure with it for Romeis that she has tried to address its significance in the round. She uses it as a gateway into the biblical world of Bede, and then within that world she asks why these Northumbrian monks made such a massive investment in making three of these enormous bibles [...] this is a study worthy of its object and will be welcomed by historians of the Bible as much as by Anglo-Saxonists and art historians. The work is enhanced by the sixty-five images in color and black-and-white illustrating what is being discussed in the book, and by a very useful summary of what is to be found on each of the 1030 folios of the manuscript (47181). All in all, we are brought into the life of the codex."
Thomas OLoughlin, in Journal of British Studies Vol. 60:4, 2021.
"This book clearly aims to stimulate a lot more work on the Codex Amiatinus. The Codex has seen something of a flourishing of scholarship on it since the turn of the century, but Celia Chazelle's volume manages to both summate and challenge that literature in a way sure to guarantee that this star of early English manuscripts will not be out of the limelight soon."
Conor OBrien in Early Medieval Europe, Volume 29, Issue 3, August 2021, 428-430
Richard Gameson, in The Medieval Review, August 2020.
"Les publications de Celia Chazelle sur le Christ cruci ou bien la thologie de la liturgie (en particulier deleucharistie) sont bien connues des mdivistes et appartiennent sans aucun doute la catgorie des lectures indispensables. Le livre publi parla. en 2019 sur un monument majeur de la thologie, de la liturgie et delhistoire delart duh aut Moyen ge fera lui aussi date et simposera rapidement comme unclassique indispensable au prs des mdivistes de tout bord. [...] .Louvrage dont il est question ici est un vritable modle du genre, o toutes les hypothses proposes par la., sur la base darguments trs solides et parfaitement dmontrs,emportent ladhsion sans rserve aucune. [...] Ce livre nest en aucun cas une monographie sur le clbre codex Amiatinus aujourdhui conserv Florence (Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, ms. Amiatino 1) ralis au VIIe-VIIIe s. au monastre anglais de Wearmouth-Jarrrow. Se situant bien au-de l dune monographie classique consacre un manuscrit qui se contenterait de passer successivement en revue la codicologie, le texte et les enluminures, C. Chazelle prend appui sur ce manuscrit cl et ce quelle appelle avec lgance ses bibles surs pour offrir au lecteur un panorama dune rare acuit sur la thologie, la liturgie et la pense chrtienne dans le monde anglo-saxon dans le haut Moyen ge. [...] Le livre de C.Chazelle est tous gards une grande russite o les hypothses et arguments, servis par une remarquable rudition,emportent ladhsion".
ric Palazzo, in Cahiers de Civilisation Mdivale, 2020.
"In the first comprehensive monograph on the Codex Amiatinus (Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, MS Amiatino 1), Celia Chazelle has richly contextualized and proposed a new chronology for the series of full Bibles produced at Wearmouth-Jarrow in the early decades of the eighth century. The author considers not only the Codex Amiatinus, the best-known and only complete surviving Wearmouth-Jarrow Bible, but also the British Library Folios, the surviving remnants of at least two large-scale sister Bibles produced at Wearmouth-Jarrow, and five additional smaller format part-Bibles from the same context. [...] Chazelles volume will most assuredly become essential reading on the Codex Amiatinus".
Carol Neuman de Vegvar, in Speculum, 96 (3), July 2021.
"What makes Celias Chazelles book, The Codex Amiatinus and Its Sister Bibles: Scripture, Liturgy, and Art in the Milieu of the Venerable Bede, stand out from the many others on Amiatinusincluding a slew of works that celebrated 1,300th anniversary of Coelfriths departure with it for Romeis that she has tried to address its significance in the round. She uses it as a gateway into the biblical world of Bede, and then within that world she asks why these Northumbrian monks made such a massive investment in making three of these enormous bibles [...] this is a study worthy of its object and will be welcomed by historians of the Bible as much as by Anglo-Saxonists and art historians. The work is enhanced by the sixty-five images in color and black-and-white illustrating what is being discussed in the book, and by a very useful summary of what is to be found on each of the 1030 folios of the manuscript (47181). All in all, we are brought into the life of the codex."
Thomas OLoughlin, in Journal of British Studies Vol. 60:4, 2021.
"This book clearly aims to stimulate a lot more work on the Codex Amiatinus. The Codex has seen something of a flourishing of scholarship on it since the turn of the century, but Celia Chazelle's volume manages to both summate and challenge that literature in a way sure to guarantee that this star of early English manuscripts will not be out of the limelight soon."
Conor OBrien in Early Medieval Europe, Volume 29, Issue 3, August 2021, 428-430
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Color Plates
List of Figures
List of Maps and Tables
List of Abbreviations
Maps
1 WearmouthJarrow and the Context of the Codex Amiatinus
âPart 1.The WearmouthJarrow Bibles
â1âWearmouth, Jarrow, and Ceolfriths Last Journey
â2âThe Codex Amiatinus
â3âOther WearmouthJarrow Biblical Manuscripts
â4âFull Bibles Made for WearmouthJarrow
â5âThe Codex Amiatinus as Bible Witness
â6âAims and Approach in this Book
â7âA Case of Mistaken Identity
â8âArt Historians and Amiatinus
âPart 2.Bibles and Their Contexts
â1âThe Narrative Evidence
â2âWearmouthJarrow and its Environs
â3âThe Easter Controversy
â4âWilfrid, Theodore, Biscop, and Ceolfrith
â5âThe Archcantor John, Liturgy, and Monotheletism
â6âWearmouthJarrow, Kings, and Bishops
â7âThe Years 710c.716
â8âWearmouthJarrow and its Bibles
2 Bede, Monasticism, and Scripture
âPart 1.The Monastic Life and Scriptures Moral Teachings
â1âIntroduction
â2âHermits and Coenobites
â3âPreaching and Teaching
â4âApproaches to Scripture
â5âBiblical History
â6âExploring Scriptures Figurative Senses
â7âMoralizing Exegesis
â8âContexts
âPart 2.Misinterpreting Scripture
â1âCorrecting the Errant
â2âEschatology, Easter Reckoning, and Free Will and Grace
â3âEaster Reckoning
â4âGrace, Free Will, and the Possibility of Innocence
â5âPerspectives
3 The WearmouthJarrow Full Bible Manuscripts
âPart 1.The Manuscripts
â1âIntroduction
â2âThe Codex Amiatinus Biblical Manuscript
â3âAmiatinus Biblical Prefaces
â4âAmiatinus Capitula
â5âThe Biblical Recension
â6âWriting and Text Layout in Amiatinus
â7âHeterogeneity
â8âBiblical Text Subdivisions and Their Articulation
â9âLiturgical Texts
â10âThe Biblical Manuscript and Its Exemplars
â11âThe Canon Tables
â12âThe British Library Folios
âPart 2.Assessing the Manuscript Evidence
â1âAmiatinus, the British Library Folios, and Possible Production Sites
â2âChronology of Production
â3âThe Implications of the Bankes Leaf
â4âThe Possible Priority of the Codex Amiatinus
â5âDating Amiatinus Biblical Manuscript
â6âDating the British Library Folios
â7âThe Possible Scope of WearmouthJarrow Bible Production
â8âA Bible for York?
â9âPandectes
4 Bibles and Reading at Wearmouth-Jarrow
âPart 1.Architecture, Art, and Liturgy at WearmouthJarrow
â1âIntroduction
â2âSettings of Worship
â3âArtistic Elements
â4âExtra-Liturgical Reading and Meditation
â5âRome and Christology
â6âThe Liturgy
â7âScriptural Manuscripts at Wearmouth and Jarrow
â8âScripture in Romes Liturgy
âPart 2.Amiatinus, Liturgy, and the Sister Bibles
â1âJarrows Foundation and Biscops Death
â2âBibles for Reading
â3âAmiatinus and Grandior
â4âWriting a Sister Bible
â5âDynamic Processes of Production
â6âOriented Reading: The Roles of the Capitula
â7âAmiatinus Sister Bibles at Wearmouth and Jarrow
â8âA Gift to Rome
5 The Preliminary Gathering and Painting of the Glorified Christ
â1âIntroduction
â2âGrandior and the Christian Topography
â3âAmiatinus Preliminary Gathering by June
â4âFolios 1/I Verso4/V Recto: The Dedication and Ezra Portrait
â5âFolio 3/IV: The Purple Leaf
â6âFolios 2/II Verso7/III Recto: The Wilderness Tabernacle
â7âFolios 5/VI Recto, 8/VIII Recto, and 6/VII Recto: The Three Biblical Diagrams
â8âFolio 6/VII Verso: The Pentateuch Cross
â9âFolio 796 Verso: The Glorified Christ (Maiestas Christi)
â10âThe Preliminary Gathering, the Glorified Christ, Grandior, and Rome
6 A Gift for St. Peter
â1âIntroduction
â2âSacred Space, Sacred Unity
â3âThe Prophet Ezra
â4âThe Wilderness Tabernacle
â5âThe Pentateuch Cross
â6âThe Glorified Christ
â7âAmiatinus and the Wider World
7 Connecting Past to Present
â1âIntroduction
â2âThe WearmouthJarrow Bible-Making Enterprise
â3âThe Gift Bible
â4âThe Manuscripts after
â5.âAfterword: Commemorating the Gift to Rome Today
Appendix: Codicological Summary of the Codex Amiatinus Biblical
Select Bibliography
Plates and Figures following page
Index
Acknowledgements
List of Color Plates
List of Figures
List of Maps and Tables
List of Abbreviations
Maps
1 WearmouthJarrow and the Context of the Codex Amiatinus
âPart 1.The WearmouthJarrow Bibles
â1âWearmouth, Jarrow, and Ceolfriths Last Journey
â2âThe Codex Amiatinus
â3âOther WearmouthJarrow Biblical Manuscripts
â4âFull Bibles Made for WearmouthJarrow
â5âThe Codex Amiatinus as Bible Witness
â6âAims and Approach in this Book
â7âA Case of Mistaken Identity
â8âArt Historians and Amiatinus
âPart 2.Bibles and Their Contexts
â1âThe Narrative Evidence
â2âWearmouthJarrow and its Environs
â3âThe Easter Controversy
â4âWilfrid, Theodore, Biscop, and Ceolfrith
â5âThe Archcantor John, Liturgy, and Monotheletism
â6âWearmouthJarrow, Kings, and Bishops
â7âThe Years 710c.716
â8âWearmouthJarrow and its Bibles
2 Bede, Monasticism, and Scripture
âPart 1.The Monastic Life and Scriptures Moral Teachings
â1âIntroduction
â2âHermits and Coenobites
â3âPreaching and Teaching
â4âApproaches to Scripture
â5âBiblical History
â6âExploring Scriptures Figurative Senses
â7âMoralizing Exegesis
â8âContexts
âPart 2.Misinterpreting Scripture
â1âCorrecting the Errant
â2âEschatology, Easter Reckoning, and Free Will and Grace
â3âEaster Reckoning
â4âGrace, Free Will, and the Possibility of Innocence
â5âPerspectives
3 The WearmouthJarrow Full Bible Manuscripts
âPart 1.The Manuscripts
â1âIntroduction
â2âThe Codex Amiatinus Biblical Manuscript
â3âAmiatinus Biblical Prefaces
â4âAmiatinus Capitula
â5âThe Biblical Recension
â6âWriting and Text Layout in Amiatinus
â7âHeterogeneity
â8âBiblical Text Subdivisions and Their Articulation
â9âLiturgical Texts
â10âThe Biblical Manuscript and Its Exemplars
â11âThe Canon Tables
â12âThe British Library Folios
âPart 2.Assessing the Manuscript Evidence
â1âAmiatinus, the British Library Folios, and Possible Production Sites
â2âChronology of Production
â3âThe Implications of the Bankes Leaf
â4âThe Possible Priority of the Codex Amiatinus
â5âDating Amiatinus Biblical Manuscript
â6âDating the British Library Folios
â7âThe Possible Scope of WearmouthJarrow Bible Production
â8âA Bible for York?
â9âPandectes
4 Bibles and Reading at Wearmouth-Jarrow
âPart 1.Architecture, Art, and Liturgy at WearmouthJarrow
â1âIntroduction
â2âSettings of Worship
â3âArtistic Elements
â4âExtra-Liturgical Reading and Meditation
â5âRome and Christology
â6âThe Liturgy
â7âScriptural Manuscripts at Wearmouth and Jarrow
â8âScripture in Romes Liturgy
âPart 2.Amiatinus, Liturgy, and the Sister Bibles
â1âJarrows Foundation and Biscops Death
â2âBibles for Reading
â3âAmiatinus and Grandior
â4âWriting a Sister Bible
â5âDynamic Processes of Production
â6âOriented Reading: The Roles of the Capitula
â7âAmiatinus Sister Bibles at Wearmouth and Jarrow
â8âA Gift to Rome
5 The Preliminary Gathering and Painting of the Glorified Christ
â1âIntroduction
â2âGrandior and the Christian Topography
â3âAmiatinus Preliminary Gathering by June
â4âFolios 1/I Verso4/V Recto: The Dedication and Ezra Portrait
â5âFolio 3/IV: The Purple Leaf
â6âFolios 2/II Verso7/III Recto: The Wilderness Tabernacle
â7âFolios 5/VI Recto, 8/VIII Recto, and 6/VII Recto: The Three Biblical Diagrams
â8âFolio 6/VII Verso: The Pentateuch Cross
â9âFolio 796 Verso: The Glorified Christ (Maiestas Christi)
â10âThe Preliminary Gathering, the Glorified Christ, Grandior, and Rome
6 A Gift for St. Peter
â1âIntroduction
â2âSacred Space, Sacred Unity
â3âThe Prophet Ezra
â4âThe Wilderness Tabernacle
â5âThe Pentateuch Cross
â6âThe Glorified Christ
â7âAmiatinus and the Wider World
7 Connecting Past to Present
â1âIntroduction
â2âThe WearmouthJarrow Bible-Making Enterprise
â3âThe Gift Bible
â4âThe Manuscripts after
â5.âAfterword: Commemorating the Gift to Rome Today
Appendix: Codicological Summary of the Codex Amiatinus Biblical
Select Bibliography
Plates and Figures following page
Index
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