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Book Description: Freer Gallery of Art/Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington, D.C., U.S.A., 2006. Soft Cover. Book is in near fine condition. 360 page catalogue with numerous illustrations. Bookseller Inventory # 008071

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Book Description: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., 2006. Soft Cover. Book Condition: Very Good. First paperback edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 360 pp., illus., maps, biblio., index; 27 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light edgewear. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. CONTENTS: Acknowledgements; 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. Exhibition Catalogue. Bookseller Inventory # 053191

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