ID: 700008672 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700008672	Record Type: Movable Work
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Bible Historiale, 2 vols. (illuminated manuscript; Master of Jean de Mandeville (French, active 1350-1370); Aut...; around 1360 - 1370; J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles, Los Angeles county, Calif...; 84.MA.40; info:getty/object/1715)

Note: 2 volumes, 608 folios, 2 half-page miniatures, 71 column pictures, 85 decorated initials. More than seventy miniatures illustrate the Getty Museum's two-volume Historical Bible, focusing largely on the narrative aspects of the texts. The Master of Jean de Mandeville, the anonymous master responsible for the majority of the illuminations, painted the costumes of his figures in grisaille, a monochrome technique popular in Paris in the 1300s. The contrasting brightly patterned backgrounds underscore the three-dimensionality of the delicately drawn, palely colored figures. Compiled at the end of the 1200s by Guiart des Moulins and subsequently expanded, the Historical Bible was the most popular Bible in French of the Middle Ages (it is called the Bible historiale in French). It includes French translations of all the books of the Bible, a series of commentaries written in the 1100s by the scholar Peter Comestor and translated by Guiart from Latin into French, and additional commentaries and glosses authored by Guiart himself. This compilation is called the Historical Bible because the commentaries stressed the role of scripture as a record of historical events. Thus, in most illuminated copies, the book of Genesis, the first of the historical books of the Bible, is profusely illustrated, while non-historical books, like those of the prophets, receive only one illumination each. The many extant copies of the Historical Bible attest to the desire of increasing numbers of lay people to have a complete Bible available in French.

Titles:

Bible Historiale, 2 vols. (preferred,C,U,undetermined,U,U)

Ms. 1 (C,U,MD,undetermined,U,U)

Bible Historiale in Two Volumes (C,U,DE,undetermined,U,U)

Historical Bible (C,U,undetermined,U,U)

Catalog Level: volume

Work Types:

illuminated manuscript [300265483] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Information Forms (hierarchy name), information forms (objects), document genres, <documents by conditions of production>, manuscripts (documents))

Bible historiale [300263411]

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Information Forms (hierarchy name), information forms (objects), document genres, <documents by function>, religious texts, Bibles)

book [300028051]

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Information Forms (hierarchy name), information forms (objects), information artifacts, <information artifacts by physical form>)

Classifications:

manuscripts (preferred)

Creation Date: around 1360 - 1370

Creator Display:

Master of Jean de Mandeville (French, active 1350-1370); Author: Guyart des Moulins (French, born 1251); Peter Comestor (French, ca. 1100-ca. 1179); Translator: Guyart des Moulins; Compiled at the end of the 1200s by Guiart des Moulins and subsequently expanded [preferred,VP]

illuminator Master of the Jean de Mandeville of Charles V (French illuminator, active ca. 1350-1360) [500021358]

author Comestor, Petrus (French scholar and author, ca. 1100-ca. 1179) [500069015]

translator Moulins, Guiart des (French author and translator, active 1291-1294) [500109421]

Locations:

Current: J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles, Los Angeles county, California, United States) [500115988] J. Paul Getty Trust, Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 84.MA.40; info:getty/object/1715

Other: Creation: Paris [7008038] Île-de-France (region (administrative division)), France (nation), Europe (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)

Display Materials: tempera on parchment

	tempera [300015062]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>, paint (coating), <paint by composition or origin>, water-base paint)

	parchment (animal material) [300011851]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by origin>, biological material, animal material, processed animal material)

Dimensions: 2 volumes; leaves: 34.9 x 26 cm (13 3/4 x 10 1/4 in.)

Cultures:

French (preferred)

General Subject:

religion and mythology (preferred)

literary

Specific Subjects:

	Bible Historiale [901000932]
	.....((Versions of the Bible, Bible, Literary works: Philosophy, Religion, Named written and performed works, Literature and Performing Arts)) (ICON)

	French (language) [300388306]
	.....(Associated Concepts Facet, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name), language-related concepts, <languages and writing systems>, <languages and writing systems by specific type>, <temporary alphabetical list: languages and writing systems>) (AAT)

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
Bible Historiale, 2 vols.	........ [VP,JPGM]
	........ Getty Museum, Authority file (2003-) http://search.getty.edu/museum/records/musobject?objectid=1715
Ms. 1	........ [VP]
	........ Getty Museum, Authority file (2003-)
Bible Historiale in Two Volumes	........ [VP]
	........ J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)
Historical Bible	........ [VP]
	........ Getty Vocabulary Program rules

Subject: ....... [VP]

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)
	..... J. Paul Getty Museum, Acquisitions 1984 (1985)