the stavelot bible is a romanesque illuminated manuscript bible in two volumes datable to 1093-1097. it was produced for, but not necessarily in, the benedictine monastery of stavelot, in the principality of stavelot-malmedy of modern belgium, and required four years to complete. it was probably the main liturgical bible of the monastery, kept on the altar of the abbey church or in the sacristy, rather than in the library. it is one of the most important mosan manuscripts of the last quarter of the 11th century, and shares some of its scribes and artists with the earlier lobbes bible and a manuscript of josephus, in all of which a monk called goderannus was at least a scribe, and possibly the main artist. for many years it was in the royal library at bamberg, until it was acquired by the british library in london, where it is catalogued as add ms 28106-28107. the pages measure 581 x 390 mm, and there are 228 and 240 leaves in the two volumes.