MARC Record from Library of Congress

LEADER: 01997cam a22003258a 4500
001 2006020112
003 DLC
005 20070501105631.0
008 060619s2006 dcu b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2006020112
020 $a9781588342409 (hardcover)
020 $a1588342409 (hardcover)
020 $a9780934686037 (pbk.)
020 $a0934686033 (pbk.)
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
050 00 $aBS445$b.I5 2006
082 00 $a220.4/074753$222
245 00 $aIn the beginning :$bbibles before the year 1000 /$cMichelle Brown, editor.
260 $aWashington, D.C. :$bFreer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution,$c2006.
263 $a0610
300 $ap. cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aAcknowledgements -- Foreword from the Freer Gallery of art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery -- Foreword from the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford -- Introduction by Michelle Brown -- Charles Lang Freer as collector of biblical manuscripts by Ann Gunter -- The journey of the text -- Chronology -- Map -- Catalogue -- Discovering the Bible -- Scroll and codex -- The earliest Hebrew scriptures -- The earliest Christian scriptures -- Formation and codification : the evolution of the Bible -- From Babel to Pentecost : sacred languages and the vernaculars -- Spreading the Word -- The single-volume Bible -- The book as desert, the scribe as evangelist -- From eastern deserts to western isles -- Early Christian Britain and Ireland -- Book as icon -- Reference catalogue -- Manuscripts and lenders in the exhibition -- Glossary and who's who.
630 00 $aBible$xHistory.
630 00 $aBible$xManuscripts$xHistory.
630 00 $aBible$xPublication and distribution$xHistory.
700 1 $aBrown, Michelle$q(Michelle P.)
710 2 $aFreer Gallery of Art.
710 2 $aArthur M. Sackler Gallery (Smithsonian Institution)
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0616/2006020112.html