Biblia Pauperum: A Facsimile and EditionAvril Henry The Biblia Pauperum, neither a bible nor a book for the poor as its title suggests, is a medieval picture book that pairs Old and New Testament scenes as a way of showing that events in the past were divinely intended to foreshadow the future. It endures as a stunning example of the blockbook, printed in its entirety--text and pictures--from woodblock. The exquisite facsimile edition reproduced here with commentary will help the modern reader to recapture the fifteenth-century reader's experience in using the blockbook. |
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name and nature 3the manuscript ancestors | 22 |
difficulties 22transcript 24translation 25the blockbook | 35 |
Transcription of Latin text | 152 |
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12 Versus 9 Versus angel Antitypes Baptism Bede Bible Moralisée Biblia Pauperum blockbook capitulo quod central scene Christ Church cristum crown Crucifixion Dauid David death dominus echoed edition Elias Eliseus example Exeter Cathedral explains facsimile Fathers Genesis Harrowing of Hell hell Honorius of Autun Isaias Isidore PL LXXXIII Jacob Jerome PL XXV Jerusalem Jesus Jews John Jonas Joseph Judas Judgement Kings Kirschbaum Klosterneuburg Klosterneuburg Altar Last Judgement Legitur libro regum Lord manuscript Mary Matt Maurus PL CIX medieval Moses prefigures Prophecy prophet Psalm Rabanus Maurus PL Réau Resurrection Röhrig Rupert PL CLXVII s.iv/v Augustine PL s.ix Rabanus Maurus s.v Jerome PL s.vi s.vii Isidore PL s.xi Glossa PL s.xii Rupert PL s.xiv s.xv Saul Schiller II figs serpent shows significat signifies Christ soul Speculum Humanae Salvationis suggests Temple Tertullian tion tituli tomb Types typological verse Virgin Vulgate woodcut XXVI