Medieval France
. Name given to a group of illustrated adaptations of the Bible first composed in Latin in the 13th century and translated into French in the 14th. The text consists of quotations from the Old and New Testaments that do not flow continuously. These are accompanied by commentary in the form of allegorical interpretations or moral applications of the biblical text and illustrated by some 5,000 miniatures. The Bible moralisée is to be distinguished from the Bible historiale figurée, a 14th-century compilation of similar nature but composed of different texts and commentaries.
Maureen B.M.Boulton
Berger, Samuel.
La Bible française au moyen âge: étude sur les plus anciennes versions de la Bible écrites en langue d’oïl. Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1884.
Delisle, Léopold. “Livres d’images destinées a l’instruction religieuse et aux exercices de piété des laïques.” Histoire littéraire de la France 31(1893):213–85, esp. 218–46.
Laborde, Alexandre de. La Bible moralisée, conservée a Oxford, Paris et Londres: reproduction integrale du manuscrit du XIIIe siècle. 5 vols. Paris: Société de Reproductions de Manuscrits a Peintures, 1911–27.
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