Hamilton Bible
Illustration — The Hamilton Bible depicted opened in Raphael's Portrait of Leo X (detail) The Hamilton Bible (Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett 78 E 3) is a fourteenth-century illuminated manuscript Bible, commissioned by the Angevin court in Naples and illustrated by the workshop of Cristoforo Orimina around 1350. It has been identified that the Bible open on the table in Raphael's Portrait of Leo X is the Hamilton Bible.
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Illustration — The Hamilton Bible depicted opened in Raphael's Portrait of Leo X (detail) The Hamilton Bible (Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett 78 E 3) is a fourteenth-century illuminated manuscript Bible, commissioned by the Angevin court in Naples and illustrated by the workshop of Cristoforo Orimina around 1350. It has been identified that the Bible open on the table in Raphael's Portrait of Leo X is the Hamilton Bible.
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- 1.Siegfried Baur, "State Library of Berlin", translated by James H. Stam and Susan Reed, in International Dictionary of Library Histories, ed. David H. Stam, vol. 2 (Chicago and London, 2001), p. 714.
- 2.Bernice F. Davidson, Raphael's Bible (1985), p. 12.
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