Biblia pauperum

id: biblia-pauperum-197-297755
title: Biblia pauperum
text: 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
brand slug: wiki
category slug: encyclopedia
description: Tradition of picture Bibles
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblia_pauperum
date created:
date modified: 2023-10-09T15:41:50Z
main entity: {"identifier":"Q681856","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q681856"}
image: {"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/41/BibliaPauperum.jpg","width":564,"height":768}
fields total: 13
integrity: 15

Related Entries

Explore Next Part