Biblia Pauperum [Latin]

by Avril 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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: Latin
• ISBN: 0801418615
• ISBN13: 9780801418617
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 2.45 lbs.