Biblia pauperum
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biblia-pauperum-197-297755
title:
Biblia pauperum
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The Biblia pauperum was a tradition of picture Bibles beginning probably with Ansgar, and a common printed block-book in the later Middle Ages to visualize the typological correspondences between the Old and New Testaments. Unlike a simple "illustrated Bible", where the pictures are subordinated to the text, these Bibles placed the illustration in the centre, with only a brief text or sometimes no text at all. Words spoken by the figures in the miniatures could be written on scrolls coming out o
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Tradition of picture Bibles
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblia_pauperum
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2023-10-09T15:41:50Z
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