[Biblia pauperum]
Edition: Schreiber edition VIII
Publisher: [publisher not identified]
Published: 1460
Place of publication: Germany or Netherlands]
Language: lat
Number of pages: 40
Subjects: Picture Bibles; Bible
Other titles: [Scenes from the Life of Christ with Old Testament praefigurations and prophecies]
Work titles: Biblia pauperum. Latin
Notes: Supplied title of "Scenes from the Life of Christ with Old Testament praefigurations and prophecies" given by the British Library, Department of Printed Books.

Approximate dates of publication of 1462-1468 supplied by Nigel Palmer and Andrew Honey in "Blockbooks, woodcut and metalcut single sheets", description of these items in the Bodleian Library (https://www2.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0010/48871/bod-inc_Blockbooks.pdf)

Approximate dates of 1460-1470 supplied by the British Library, Department of Printed Books.

Possible places of publication supplied by the British Library, Department of Printed Books.

The Bodleian Library identifies this block book as BB-5.

Schreiber identifies this block book as number VIII.

"One of the block books that has survived in the greatest numbers is the Biblia pauperum, a compendium of scripture prepared for the poor and the minor clergy, providing them with material for prayer and reflection. The general intent of the Biblia pauperum was to harmonize the Old and New Testaments. This block book presents 40 Biblical events illustrated by parallel passages from the Old and New Testaments. Subjects from the life of Christ are found in the central panel of the page accompanied by two parallels (prefigurations, or typological interpretations) from Old Testament history and a witness from the prophets in the adjacent left and right panels." -- https://www.loc.gov/item/49038879/

Signatures: A b-v .a.-.v.

Bibliothèque nationale (France). Catalogue des incunables (CIBN), BB-5

Catalogue of books printed in the fifteenth century now in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, BB-5

Schreiber, W.L. Manuel de l'amteur de la gravure sur bois et sur métal au XVe siècle, IV: pages 7-8

Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum  (1963-1971 edition), I: pages 6

Bibliotheca Americana: catalogue of the John Carter Brown Library in Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, I:5

Purchase; before 1874; 08138.