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    The Bury Bible is a large illustrated bible written at Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk, England between 1121 and 1148. The book was created by an artist known as Master Hugo and is the only surviving major work of his.

  2. Aug 10, 2011 · In the first of a new series of short articles exploring images from around the University, we look at the 12th-century Bury Bible from the Parker Library at Corpus Christi College.

  3. The Bury Bible is a stunner! It is thought that it was made about 1135 at the Abbey of Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk in the east of England. We even know who did the illuminations and who commissioned the bible (quite unusual for a book of this age).

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  4. The Bury Bible is a hand written and illuminated Bible of the type used by the church before the English Reformation. It was originally bound in two great volumes, and is of a great size, compared to books of today.

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  5. BURY BIBLE: FOLLOWERS OF MASTER HUGO AT BURY ST. EDMUNDS* The Great Bible of Bury St. Edmunds, illuminated by Master Hugo in the fourth decade of the twelfth century, is generally acknowledged to be one of the masterpieces of English Romanesque manu-script illumination and to have exercised considerable influence upon subsequent English book ...

  6. The Bury Bible Description: This great Bible, CCCC MS 2, one of the most famous of the books in the Parker Library, is now bound in three volumes (2I, 2II, 2III), although once was a single volume. 2I contains ff. 1r-121v with Jerome s Prologue and the books from Genesis to Joshua; 2II contains ff. 122r-241v with the books from Judges to Isaiah ...

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  8. The twelfth century saw the increased popularity of large format luxury bibles created for wealthy monastic foundations. In the case of the Bury Bible, the cost of the commission was covered by Hervey, the brother of the abbey's prior, Talbot.

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