The Benedictine abbey of Saint-Vaast at Arras was founded in the mid-seventh century and dedicated to the first bishop of the combined dioceses of Arras and Cambrai, Vedastus (d. 540). Its early years are obscure, but it enjoyed a certain flowering in the Carolingian period, illustrated by the abbacy of Rado (808–815), whose name has been tentatively associated with the production of a modestly illuminated pandect Bible, now preserved in Vienna (ÖNB lat. 1190). In late Carolingian times, the Franco-Saxon style of book illumination seems to have held sway at Saint-Vaast, though it was perhaps not the principal center from which it was diffused. The three-volume Bible to which Diane Reilly’s substantial study is devoted (Arras, Bib. mun. Ms. 559 [435]) is a highly idiosyncratic work, designed for the prescribed choir and refectory reading of the Scripture per circulum anni, and an early version of the large-scale editions of the Old and the New Testament that became a staple of Romanesque book production. Reilly’s project, which evolved from a University of Toronto doctoral dissertation completed in 1995, has several antecedents worthy of note. André Boutemy, whose many publications did much to bring to public awareness the riches of early medieval...