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Article: Early Medieval Bible Illumination and the Ashburnham Pentateuch.(Book Review)
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- June 1, 2005
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Early Medieval Bible Illumination and the Ashburnham Pentateuch. By Dorothy Verkerk. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. x + 262 pp. $75.00 cloth.
With this volume, Dorothy Verkerk summarizes her important research on one of the pivotal illuminated manuscripts of the early Middle Ages, work begun with her dissertation and previously presented in part in articles and conference papers. The Ashburnham Pentateuch, Paris, Bibl. nat. lat. nouv. acq. 2334, is a large portion of an illustrated Latin Pentateuch, the first five books of the Old Testament. By most counts, 142 of an original 208 folios remain, including eighteen illuminations and a decorated ...