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Berlin.: Union Verlag., Ohne Jahr.. Orig.Leinen.. Reichlich in Farbe illustriert. 4°. Einband leicht berieben. Umschlag leicht berieben.

Used - Very Good. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

Millwood, NY: Belvedere Press, 1967. quarter leather over cloth-covered boards. Illuminated Manuscripts. 10 3/4" x 14" quarter leather over cloth-covered boards. 50 pages. Facsimile edition limited to 300 copies, of which this copy is not signed or numbered. Spine faded, inside gutter of front board lightly worn. Bookstamp on front pastedown. Else a near fine copy. Sometime during the fifteenth century, Frederick of Hohenloke, Dean of the Bamberg Cathedral, commissioned this Biblia Pauperum, or "Poor Man's Bible", to educate his parishioners who, for the most part, could neither read nor write. Both the artist and the scribe had a single purpose in mind: to illuminate the stories of the Old and New Testaments and to make them appealing and understandable to the common man. On each page, the illustrator's imagination brings the Bible to life to delightfully naive folk art. Depictions, such as Eve as a young German girl with flowing blond hair seducing Adam to partake of the forbidden fruit and the… Leer más