Hamilton Bible

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 was part of the Hamilton Collection of medieval manuscripts, acquired by the Berlin State Library in 1884,^[1] and is currently held in the Kupferstichkabinett Berlin, with call number 78 E 3.

It has been thought that the Bible open on the table in Raphael's Portrait of Leo X is the Hamilton Bible.^[2]

References

^ 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.
^ Bernice F. Davidson, Raphael's Bible (1985), p. 12.

External links

Helmut Böse, Die lateinischen Handschriften der Sammlung Hamilton zu Berlin (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1966), pp. 45-46
A page of the Hamilton Bible (black and white).