THE OLD & RARE The Paupers' Bible OR The Biblia Pauperum MEDIE-VAL ILLUMINATED BIBLE ON USB ********************************** Originally Paupers' Bibles took the form of colourful hand-painted illuminated manuscri-pts on vellum, though in the fifteenth century printed examples with woodcuts took over. The Biblia pauperum was among the commonest works put out in block-book form, mainly in the Netherlands and Germany, where both text and images were done entirely in a single woodcut for each page. The first of many editions printed using movable type was printed in German, in Bamberg in about 1462 by Albrecht Pfister; there were about eighteen incunabulum editions. A Biblia pauperum was not intended to be bought by the poor - some manuscri-pts were opulent and very expensive, although the block-book versions were far cheaper, and probably affordable by parish priests. ____________________ Having already developed a considerable manuscri-pt tradition from the 13th century, the so-called Biblia pauperum (Paupers' Bible) attained its most prolific level of distribution in the second half of the 15th century through block book and incunable editions. Particularly widespread was the 40-leaf Latin version of the Biblia pauperum, which was published in no fewer than 11 block book editions. The arrangement of the text and the sequence of illustrations in the Latin version were adopted by both of the German-language block book editions, which, however, used somewhat simpler woodcuts. The first block book edition in German was co-produced in 1470 in the city of Nordlingen by the painter Friedrich Walther and the carpenter Hans Hurning, as is indicated by a note at the end of the book accompanied by two coats of arms and the date. As early as a year later, the German version was copied by Hans Sporer, a calligrapher and block cutter of Nuremberg, who simplified the illustrations by omitting the hatching and replacing the background landscapes with plain horizontal lines. Imitating the earlier version, Sporer included two coats of arms and the date 1471 in the last plate. The German Biblia pauperum block book presented here certainly does not belong to the first issue produced by Sporer, as this was printed from wooden blocks on which two plates were placed side by side (1-40, 2-39, and so forth). Since the leaves could only be printed on one side, they had to be folded in the middle and arranged in a manner to ensure that the illustrations in the first half of the book were on the left side (verso), while those in the second half were on the right side (recto). At a later stage, Sporer seems to have split the blocks in the middle and begun producing prints with a simple printing press, which allowed printing on both the recto and verso of a leaf, as is the case in the copy shown. Besides the Biblia pauperum, Sporer produced three other block book titles in Nuremberg up to 1474, before he moved to Bamberg and began printing using movable types in 1487. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This is your chance to own a copy of this extremely OLD & RARE Bible compiled in high quality and preserved forever in file format on USB ******************************* This OLD & RARE Manuscri-pt has been professionally compiled in high quality and preserved forever in file format on USB for your enjoyment
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A complete digitized copy of the Biblia pauperum - the medie-val "Paupers' Bible" - German block book edition, circa 1490, reproduced from a hand-colored (illuminated) original:
Every page is reproduced in full color. The German text of each leaf accompanies the illuminated woodcut scenes, exactly as in the pictures shown in this listing.
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