Occult & Esoterica
[No Author] Biblia Pauperum Apocalypsis. Die Weimarer Handschrift
[No Author] Biblia Pauperum Apocalypsis. Die Weimarer Handschrift
Edition Leipzig, 2007. Reprint. Hardcover. Large folio (20 x 13 inches). Text in German. This edition limited to 999 numbered copies, this being No. 222. Bound in brown leather (faux?) with gilt and red titles to front and spine. With very thick boards. Illustrated throughout with full page color plates showing the complete Weimar manuscript. Original slipcase has some wear and a dark area on one of the panels. Otherwise a near fine copy in a very good slipcase. A beautiful production.
The Biblia pauperum (Latin for "Paupers' Bible") 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. During these times many people were illiterate so 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. This particular volume covers portions of the Book of Revelation and the colorful illustrations are fantastic.