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Early Bible Illustrations - A Short Study Based on some Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Century Printed Texts (Paperback)
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Early Bible Illustrations - A Short Study Based on some Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Century Printed Texts (Paperback)
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Mr Strachan was asked if he could identify or explain the
illustrations in an edition of the English Great Bible of 1541.
Some were simple, others quite baffling. He set out to discover
their meaning and history, and succeeded in tracing their
derivation. At each stage a possible influence or explanation
pointed a stage farther back; in the end he found that he had to
cover virtually the whole history of illustration in printed bibles
during their first century. He has set down his findings in this
study. There is a considerable detective interest; one sees how
successive renderings of a subject produced strange garblings,
until certain pictures became apparently meaningless. It is all
quite easy to understand, now that Mr Strachan has explained it;
but he was working backwards in time, and it was a feat of
ingenuity and perseverance to have reached his conclusions. All the
more so in that he had to survey the entire range of bible-printing
in every important European country.
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