Recently, exhibitions at the J. Paul Getty Museum and at UCLA displayed the rich character and diversity of Bibles—both in terms of illuminated manuscripts and printed copies over the course of a thousand years of human history. The text of this companion volume discusses the origins of the Bible, the Latin versions of the Bible, and the Bible in the liturgy and in late medieval literature. Complete with numerous illustrations this book will be valuable to anyone with an interest in the history of the Bible.

• Foreword, by John Walsh and Gloria Werner
• Bible Collections in Los Angeles, by John Bidwell
• The J. Paul Getty Museum: Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts, by Ranee Katzenstein
  • Introduction to the Exhibition
  • Checklist
  • Illustrations
• The Department of Special Collections, University Research Library, UCLA: The Printed Word, by David S. Zeidberg and James Davis
  • Introduction to the Exhibition
  • Checklist
  • Illustrations

Ranee Katzenstein is a former assistant curator of manuscripts at the J. Paul Getty Museum.

David S. Zeidberg is the former head of special collections at the University of California Los Angeles.