[Biblia pauperum].
[Netherlands : s.n.,
ca. 1460-1463]
Blockbook, i.e. xylographic edition.
3rd edition according to Schreiber's chronology, possibly printed in Netherlands.
40 leaves of illustration and text printed on one side only. Blank pages of leaves are glued together.
Each plate contains a picture of a New Testament or eschatological event at the centre, flanked by two pictures of Old Testament prefigurations, with the busts of saints and prophets with auctoritates in the upper and lower registers, prophecies and short lessons based on the Old Testament, and Leonine hexameters used as titles for the three pictures.
Biblia pauperum, in Latin, incipit "Legit[ur] in genesi . iij . cap[itul]o q[uod] / dixit d[omi]n[u]s serpenti super / pect[us] tuu[m] gradier[is]", A verso-.v. recto.
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