The Holkham Bible
( BIBLE ) HOLKHAM BIBLE.
Commentary by Michelle P. Brown.
1750 COPIES WERE PRINTED
Published: Folio Society, 2007
Stock code: 21621
Price: £365.00
2 vols., 4to., First Edition thus, with fine coloured plates; facsimile volume handsomely bound in half morocco, upper board elaborately blocked and lettered in gilt and colours, companion volume bound in cloth, leather back, the two volumes housed in publisher's clamshell case.
EDITION LIMITED TO 1750 COPIES. British Library, Additional MS 47682. Acquired by the British Library in 1952, this world-famous manuscript was held previously at Holkham Hall, Norfolk (Holkham MS 666). It consists of 231 images mainly of episodes in the books of Genesis and Revelation, and is believed to have been produced in London between 1327-40. The superb facsimile is accompanied by a companion volume providing historical context, commentary and a bibliography, with Instructions for care laid in the facsimile volume.