The Illustration of the Pauline Epistles in French and English Bibles of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Century

The purpose of this book, which had its inception in a doctoral thesis, is to describe and interpret the iconography of the historiated initials accompanying the Pauline Epistles in twelfth- and thirteenth-century bibles. With five appendices, two of which are iconographical, an index of manuscripts and a general index, and list of the 331 figures. An indispensable tool for the serious student of art history, theology or intellectual history. xxvi, 180, followed by 156 pages of plates. cloth.. 4to..