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Early Bible Illustrations

A Short Study Based on Some Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Century Printed Texts

by James Strachan

  • Paperback
  • 188 pages
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • 14 x 21.6 x 1.1 cm

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For history enthusiasts and Bible study learners

Helps you understand complex biblical illustrations

You will appreciate the art and meaning of scripture

Discover the fascinating history behind early Bible illustrations.

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Mr Strachan was asked if he could identify or explain the illustrations in an edition of the English Great Bible of 1541. Some were simple, others quite baffling. He set out to discover their meaning and history, and succeeded in tracing their derivation. At each stage a possible influence or explanation pointed a stage farther back; in the end he found that he had to cover virtually the whole history of illustration in printed bibles during their first century. He has set down his findings in this study. There is a considerable detective interest; one sees how successive renderings of a subject produced strange garblings, until certain pictures became apparently meaningless. It is all quite easy to understand, now that Mr Strachan has explained it; but he was working backwards in time, and it was a feat of ingenuity and perseverance to have reached his conclusions. All the more so in that he had to survey the entire range of bible-printing in every important European country.
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  • Author

    James Strachan

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Cambridge University Press

  • Published

    January 2009

  • Weight

    246g

  • Page Count

    188

  • Dimensions

    14 x 21.6 x 1.1 cm

  • ISBN

    9780521100021

  • ISBN-10

    052110002X

  • Eden Code

    1901309

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