Volume XVIII: The Old English Illustrated Hexateuch
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Volume XVIII: The Old English Illustrated Hexateuch
This is a copy, written in the first half of the eleventh century, of an Old English prose version of the first six books of the Old Testament, partly by Ælfric. In medieval times it belonged to the library of St Augustine’s, Canterbury. It is one of the most lavishly illustrated of Anglo-Saxon manuscripts, containing no less than 400 colored drawings, which form one of the most extensive cycles of Pentateuch illustrations to survive from the Middle Ages. These drawings are of extreme interest iconographically because they were derived from an Early Christian exemplar which has not otherwise come down to us.
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1r Aelfric's preface to the translation of Genesis, Gen. 1.1-5
2v Gen. 1.6-13
3r Gen. 1.14-19
3v Gen. 1.20-23
4r Gen. 2.1-7
5r Gen. 2.8-12
5v Gen. 2.13
6r Gen. 2.15-20
6v Gen. 2.20-Gen. 3.7
7r Gen. 3.7-24
8r Gen. 3.24-Gen. 4.2
8v Gen. 4.3-15
9r Gen. 4.16-18
9v Gen. 4.19-21
10r Gen. 4.22, 25-26
10v Gen. 5.5-11
11r Gen. 5.12-20
11v Gen. 5.21-27
12r Gen. 5.28-31
12v Gen. 5.32-Gen. 6.3
13r Gen. 6.4-11
13v Gen. 6.12-22
14r Gen. 7.1-9
14v Gen. 7.10-23
15r Gen. 7.24-Gen. 8.9
15v Gen. 8.10-18
16r,v Gen. 8.20-Gen. 9.19
17r Gen. 9.20-22
17v Gen. 9.23
18r Gen. 9.24-29
18v Gen. 10.1-Gen. 11.9
19r Full-page Illustration
19v Gen. 11.27-28
20r Gen. 11.29-31
20v Gen. 11.31-32
21r Gen. 12.1-6
21v Gen. 12.7-16
22v Gen. 12.17-19
23r Gen. 12.20-Gen. 13.1, 13.3-5, 13.2, 13.5-10
23v Gen. 13.11-13
24r Gen. 13.14-18
24v Gen. 12.1-13
25r Gen. 14.14-15
25v Gen. 14.16-17, 21-24
26r Gen. 14.18-Gen. 15.4
26v Gen. 15.5-11
27r Gen. 15.12-21
27v Gen. 16.1-6
28r Gen. 16.6-16
28v Gen. 17.1-22
29r Full-page Illustration
29v Gen. 17.23-Gen. 18.7
30r Gen. 18.8-15
30v Gen. 18.16-32
31r Gen. 18.33-Gen. 19.2
31v Gen. 19.3-14
32r Gen. 19.15-22
32v Gen. 19.23-26
33r Gen. 19.27-32
33v Gen. 19.33, 35-37
34r Gen. 19.38-Gen. 20.2
34v Gen. 20.3-7
35r Gen. 20.8-Gen. 21.7
35v Gen. 21.8-13
36r Gen. 21.14-20
36v Gen. 21.20-26
37r Gen. 21.27-34
37v Gen. 22.1-2
38r Gen. 22.3-18
38v Gen. 22.19-Gen. 23.20
39r Gen. 24.1-20
39v Gen. 24.20-67
40r Gen. 25.5-10, 12-17
40v Gen. 25.20-26
41r Gen. 25.27-Gen. 27.13
41v Full-page Illustration
42r Gen. 27.14-30
42v Gen. 27.30-Gen. 28.2
43r Gen. 28.10-17
43v Full-page Illustration
44r Gen. 28.18-Gen. 29.11
44v Gen. 29.13-28
45r Gen. 29.28-Gen. 30.8
45v Gen. 30.9-24
46r Gen. 30.25-Gen. 31.18
46v Gen. 31.19-53
47v Gen. 31.53-55
48r Gen. 32.1-5
48v Gen. 32.6-30
49r Full-page Illustration
49v Full-page Illustration
50r Gen. 32.21-32
50v Gen. 33.1-15
51r Gen. 33.16-Gen. 35.6
51v Gen. 35.9-19
52r Gen. 35.22-29
52v Gen. 36.6-Gen. 37.1
53r Gen. 37.2-14
53v Gen. 37.14-28
54r Full-page Illustration
54v Gen. 37.29-35
55r Gen. 37.36-Gen. 38.5
55v Gen. 38.6-13
56r Gen. 38.14-21
56v Gen. 38.22-26
57r Gen. 38.27-30
57v Gen. 39.1-6
58r Gen. 39.7-23
58v Gen. 40.1-19
59r Gen. 40.20-Gen. 41.7
59v-60r Gen. 41.8-43
60v Gen. 42.44-56
61r Gen. 42.1-17
61v Gen. 42.18-28
62r Gen. 42.29-38
62v Gen. 43.1-14
63r Gen. 43.15-24
63v Gen. 43.25-Gen. 44.2
64r Full-page Illustration
65r Gen. 44.3-Gen. 45.15
65v Gen. 45.16-28
66r Full-page Illustration
66v Gen. 46.1-6
67r Gen. 46.8-34
67v Full-page Illustration
68r Full-page Illustration
68v Gen. 47.1-17
69r Gen. 47.18-26
69v Gen. 47.27-31
70r Gen. 48.1-22
70v Gen. 49.1-Gen. 50.3
71r Gen. 50.4-9
71v Gen. 50.10-13
72r Gen. 50.14
72v Gen. 50.15-Exodus 1.7
73r Ex. 1.8-14
73v Ex. 1.15-22
75r Ex. 2.1-10
75v Ex. 2.11-15
76r Ex. 2.16-20
76v Ex. 2.21-25
78r Ex. 3.1-Ex. 4.17
77r-78r Ex. 3.1-Ex. 4.17
78v Ex. 4.18-28
79r Ex. 4.29-31
79v Ex. 5.1-14
80r Full-page Illustration
80v Ex. 5.15-Ex. 6-12
81r Ex. 6.16-Ex. 7.9
81v Ex. 7.10-19
82r Ex. 7.20-25
82v Ex. 8.1-11
83r Ex. 8.12-19
83v Ex. 8.20-29
84r Ex. 8.30-Ex. 9.5
84v Ex. 9.6-12
85r Full-page Illustration
85v Ex. 9.13-31
86r Ex. 13.33-35, Ex. 10.1-2
86v Ex. 10.3-11
87r Ex. 10.12-15
87v Ex. 10.16-20
88v Ex. 10.21-Ex. 12.20
89r Full-page Illustration
89v Ex. 12.21-33
90r Full-page Illustration
90v Ex. 12.34-Ex. 14.4
91r Ex. 14.5-18
91v Ex. 14.21-22
92r Ex. 14.23-31
92v Ex. 15.1-21
93r Ex. 15.22-27
93v Ex. 16.1-13
94r Ex. 16.13-21
94v Ex. 16.22-35
95r Ex. 17.1-13
95v Ex. 17.14-16
96r Ex. 18.1-12
96v Ex. 18.13-26
97r Ex. 18.27-Ex. 19.15
97v-99v Ex. 19.16-Ex. 24.3
100r Ex. 24.4-5
100v Ex. 24.6-8
101r-101v Ex. 24.9-EX. 31.17
102r Ex. 31.18-Ex. 32.6
102v Ex. 32.7-25
103r Full-page Illustration
103v Ex. 32.30-35
104r Full-page Illustration
104v Ex. 33.1-Ex. 34.3
105v Full-page Illustration
107r Lev. 1.1-Lev. 8.3
107v Lev. 8.4-36
108r Lev. 9.1-24
108v Lev. 10.1-6
109r-110v Lev. 10.8-Lev. 26.44
111r Num. 1.1-16
111v Num. 1.17-Num. 3.4
112r Num. 3.5-23
112v Num. 3.27-29
113r Num. 3.33-35
113v Num. 3.38-Num. 8.20
114r Num. 10.28-Num. 11.3
114v Full-page Illustration
115r Num. 11.4-25
115v Num. 11.26-30
116r Num. 11.31-34
116v Num. 12.1-15
117r Num. 13.1-21
117v118r Num. 13.21-Num. 14.34
118v Num. 14.36-38
119r Num. Num. 14.39-45
119v Num. 16.1-6
120r Num. 16.18, 27, 12-14, Num. 16.19-21, 31-34
120v Num. 16.35
121r Num. 16.41-49
121v Num. 16.50-Num. 17.11
122r Num. 18.1-Num. 20.11
122v Num. 20.14-21
123r Num. 20.21-Num. 21.4
123v Num. 21.4-8
124r Num. 21.9-32
124v Num. 21.33-35
125r Num. 22.1-4
125v Num. 22.5-35
126r Num. 22.35-Num. 23.13
126v Num. 23.14-Num. 24.11
127r Num. 25.1-9
127v Num. 25.16-18, Num. 31.6-18
128r Num. 31.18, 26.2-65
128v-136r Deut. 1.1-Deut. 31.8
136v Deut. 31.9-14
137r Deut. 31.14-21
137v-138v Deut. 31.22-Deut. 32.47
139r Deut. 32.48-Deut. 34.12
139v Full-page Illustration
140r Full-page Illustration
140v Jos. 1.1-18
141r Jos. 2.1-6
141v Jos. 2.7-21
142r Jos. 2.22-Jos. 3.13
142v Jos. 3.14-Jos. 4.14
143r Full-page Illustration
143v Jos. 4.18-Jos. 5.12
144r Jos. 5.13-Jos. 6.4
144v Jos. 6.12-14
145r Jos. 6.15-20
145v Jos. 6.21-27
146r Jos. 7.1-3
146v Jos. 7.4-15
148r Jos. 7.16-21
148v Jos. 7.22-Jos. 8.2
149r Jos. 8.3-29
149v Jos. 8.25-32
150r Jos. 9.1-27
150v Jos. 10.3-18
151r Full-page Illustration
151v Jos. 10.21-27
152r Jos. 10.28
152v Jos. 10.29-35
153r Jos. 10.36-39
153v Jos. 10.40-43
154r Jos. 11.1-9
154v Jos. 11.10-23
155r-155v Jos. 12.1-Jos. 24.32