History and description of the leaves of the Oxford Bible Pictures by the 13th-century English illuminator W. de Brailes.
The Oxford Bible Pictures consist of thirty-four illuminated miniatures depicting biblical events from the fall of the Rebel Angels to the Last Judgment. This is one of the few known works attributed to Willeam de Brailes, an illuminator whose identity was only discovere in the twentieth century, and who worked in Oxford in the middle of the thirteenth century. Dazzling in their pictorial invention and sparkling in their execution, these small miniatures are superb examples of early English Gothic art. Author William Noel pieces together the complicated history of the Oxford Bible Pictures and reconstructs their original appearance. He argues that they were once part of an extraordinary sequence of miniatures in a psalter now in Stockholm. He discusses their significance in the history of psalter illustration, their place in the work of de Brailes, and their function in the thirteenth century.
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