[Rarebooks] FS: Paupers' Bible.

[Kaaterskill Books]

We offer for Sale:

Ehwald, R. (Rudolf). BIBLIA PAUPERUM. DEUTSCHE AUSGABE VON 1471. 
Weimar: Gesellschaft der Bibliophilen, 1906. 8 pp., [40] leaves. 4to. 
(31 x 22 cm). Paper wrappers with cord ties (paperback).  First 
edition thus. Facsimile of the German 1471 edition. Gesellschaft der 
Bibliophilen. No. 83.

Biblia Pauperum or Bible of the Poor: these collections of pictures 
representing scenes from the Bible were "popular especially in the 
15th century, consisting of about 40 pages of pictures illustrating 
the New Testament, with appropriate prophetic scenes from the Old on 
either side of each page and explanatory texts in the corners. Their 
invention is ascribed to Saint Anschar, Bishop of Bremen. With the 
introduction of the xylographic or block-book process they were 
published much more cheaply than the earlier picture bibles, and were 
thus more accessible to the poor. They were used by the mendicant 
orders, in instructing the people. When the printing of the whole 
Bible with illustrations became practicable they were gradually given 
up" (see New Catholic Dictionary). "Faksimile-Reproduktion der 
Reichsdruckerei" on rear cover.

A very good copy; wrappers frayed at the edges with two small tears, 
interior repair to corner of one wrapper, impressions crisp, binding 
solid.   [25865]  $225

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Charles Kutcher
Kaaterskill Books
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