Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS lat. 6

Rodes Bible Facsimile Edition

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The Rodes Bible is a luxurious "Catalan Giant Bible" made at the Benedictine monastery of Santa Maria de Ripoll in the first half of the eleventh century, under the supervision of the abbot Oliba. Produced for Sant Pere de Rodes, the four-volume Latin Christian Bible (originally bound in a single volume) is richly illuminated in vivid colors with four large decorated initials, painted canon tables, twenty miniatures, and forty-eight drawings by multiple artists. Notably, this Bible is the first known instance of using red letters for the words of Christ.

We have 1 facsimile edition of the manuscript "Rodes Bible": Les Bíblies de Ripoll facsimile edition, published by Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, 2010

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Manuscript book description compiled by Erin K. Donovan.
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Les Bíblies de Ripoll

Vatican City: Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, 2010

  • Commentary (Catalan, English abstract, French abstract, German abstract, Italian abstract, Spanish abstract) by Mundó, Anscario M.
  • Limited Edition: 200 copies
  • Full-size color reproduction of the entire original document, Rodes Bible: the facsimile attempts to replicate the look-and-feel and physical features of the original document; pages are trimmed according to the original format; the binding might not be consistent with the current document binding.

The facsimile edition is provided with a commentary of the Rodes Bible and the Ripoll Bible as the two manuscripts were created in the same scriptorium around the same time. 

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