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Miniature Bible, Fairy Castle
Specifications
Miniature Bible, Fairy Castle
Category
Art, Architecture, and Design
Classification
CHENHALL - Communication Objects - Documentary Objects - Other Documents - Book
CHENHALL - Communication Objects - Arts - Visual Arts - Sculpture - Miniature
Object Origin
Bryce, Mr. David
1890
Physical Characteristics
Object Description: Miniature 'New Testament' Bible with red leather cover, gold metal edging and clasp.
Marks: "IHS"
Measurements: Object:
Height: 0.31 in, Length: 0.787 in, Width: 0.59 in
Weight: 0.009 lbs
Credit
Gift of Colleen Moore, 49.129.191.1
Display Status
On Exhibit
Miniature Bible, Fairy Castle
About: Miniature Bible, Fairy Castle
About: Miniature Bible, Fairy Castle
This tiny Bible in the Chapel of the Fairy Castle was printed by David Bryce in Scotland in 1890. Said to be the tiniest Bible in the world, it sits on top of the Princess’ prie-dieu. It contains the entire New Testament and it is bound in red leather and gold. It is clasped tight with a gold hinge. The Chapel of the Fairy Castle is decorated throughout with inlaid ivory embellished with symbolic events of the Old Testament, designed by Bayard de Volo. In the center of the design are the Ten Commandments hewn into the stone tablets. The gold and ivory Chapel organ was carved in Italy and has over a hundred keys, each barely a sixteenth of an inch wide, and it even plays music through an electrical system via remote control. Finally, the ceiling is decorated from the illuminations of the Book of Kells, a medieval illuminated manuscript preserved in Dublin, Ireland.
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