“This modest volume is truly a tour de force of concise information about a significant topic.” —Rare Books and Manuscripts Librarianship
"This volume is the first in a series devoted to the codicology of texts. It first sketches the history of the codicology of the Latin Bible under seven headings: late antiquity, the Carolingians, the vernacular, monastic Bibles, the university text, the new literacy, and the Bible in print. Then it presents on facing pages information about various codices (material description, historical significance, content, bibliography) and photographs of twenty-eight examples arranged according to the history of development." —New Testament Abstracts
“Margaret T. Gibson’s introduction is freshly informative and characteristically incisive, especially on the earlier centuries, with valuable footnote citations of original sources and modern scholarship....The volume is a very good value for its price and deserves to be widely purchased and used in the increasing number of courses intended to introduce graduates and undergraduates to medieval literary history in the actual forms it took.” —Medium AEvum
“If nothing else, the simple physical evidence of Gibson’s treatise can call us to imitate the respect and love possessed by antiquity for the sacred page- and his despite our own modern superabundance of historical, philological, and other aids to Biblical study.” —Cistercian Studies Quarterly
“The valedictory work of the late Margaret Gibson inaugurates an impressive series dedicated to the codicology of texts, to how and why the appearance of particular kinds of manuscripts changed over the centuries.... Gibson’s goal is to present an example of each major kind of Bible, and she succeeds admirably. A lifetime of learning is made easily and elegantly accessible in this well-conceived and well-made book.” —Religious Studies Review
“This book is not a haphazard collection of plates. It tells a story, and tells it well. The excellently clear plates combined with detailed and thoughtful comment teach us about the manuscripts in the best possible way.” —D.C. Parker
“This volume possesses all the hallmarks of Margaret Gibson’s contributions-impeccable scholarship, considerable erudition, and elegant prose that is always a model of restraint....Her condensed and learned explanations challenge as well as instruct....The depth of Gibson’s understanding of the world of medieval learning enlivens and enriches this volume and makes it stand out from the type of introductory volume that might have been written by a scholar whose interests were focused more narrowly on the medieval Bible.” —Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies
