Summary The Codex Amiatinus is perhaps the most famous copy of the Bible surviving in Western Europe. A fascinating and elusive manuscript, with a suite of decorated folios, it was made in Anglo-Saxon England around the turn of the eighth century at the twin monastic foundation of Wearmouth and Jarrow as one of three such 'pandects'. Created at the monastic foundation celebrated in the work of the Venerable Bede, this vast and luxe manuscript was sent by the Northumbrian monks as a gift to the Pope in 716 and, after a sojourn of some 900 years at Monte Amiato (Tuscany), it was donated to the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana in Florence in the eighteenth century. As a result of an international conference held to commemorate the 1300th anniversary of the departure of the manuscript from Northumberland and coinciding with the production and presentation of a facsimile of the Codex to the Museum at Jarrow, this volume - the first devoted to the Codex Amiatinus - brings together twelve essays that offer a new appraisal of this remarkable book, and of the contexts that surrounded its production. Encompassing its text, its images, its social, political and ecclesiastical contexts and its later medieval legacy, the contributions to this volume highlight several previously unrecognised aspects and details of the manuscript that further our understanding of the Codex as a book, and as inheritor and progenitor of manuscript traditions in its own right. TABLE OF CONTENTS Dedication List of Plates List of Figures Acknowledgements Image Credits Abbreviations List of Contributors Chapters: 1. Jane Hawkes: An early encounter with the Codex Amiatinus: George Forrest Browne and the art of the manuscript 2. Celia Chazelle: The illustrations of the Codex Amiatinus and of Cosmas Indicopleustes' Christian Topography 3. N.G. Baker: Putting your best foot forward: reviewing the evangelist portraits in the Codex Amiatinus 4. Meg Boulton: From cover to cover: (re)presentations of ecclesia and eschatology in the miniatures of the Codex Amiatinus 5. Georgia Michael: Portraits of the divine: reception, visual convention and ingenuity in the Codex Amiatinus 6. Carol Farr: The graphic presentation of inscriptions: the first quire of the Codex Amiatinus' diagrams and Ezra picture 7. H.A.G. Houghton: The text of the gospels in the Codex Amiatinus 8. Thomas O'Loughlin: 'Who, O Lord, shall live in your tabernacle?': the map of the tabernacle within the life of the monasteries of Wearmouth and Jarrow 9. Conor O'Brien: Moses, Aaron and the abbacy of Wearmouth-Jarrow in 716 10. Alan Thacker: Pope Sergius' letter to Abbot Ceolfrith: Wearmouth-Jarrow, Rome and the papacy in the early eighth century 11. Mary Garrison: Alcuin, Carmen 69, and the Ceolfrith Pandects 12. Lila Yawn: The Italian Giant Bibles and the Codex Amiatinus Bibliography Index