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Salzburg Biblia Pauperum

Salzburg Biblia Pauperum – Verlag Anton Pustet / Andreas Verlag – Codex a IX 12 – Stiftsbibliothek St. Peter (Salzburg, Austria)

Salzburg (Austria) — Ca. 1370–1380

Striking facial expressions and gestures in 36 typological pictorial clusters: the life of Christ as the fulfillment of the stories of the Old Testament in vividly colored pen and ink drawings and short, edifying text passages

  1. Paupers' Bibles offer a concise, didactic and edifying presentation of complex theological content

  2. They link the New and Old Testaments typologically, focusing on the life of Jesus

  3. Each page shows eight colored pen and ink drawings, combined into two pictorial groups

Salzburg Biblia Pauperum

Codex a IX 12 Stiftsbibliothek St. Peter (Salzburg, Austria)
Salzburg Biblia Pauperum – Verlag Anton Pustet / Andreas Verlag – Codex a IX 12 – Stiftsbibliothek St. Peter (Salzburg, Austria)
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Salzburg Biblia Pauperum

Bibliae pauperum were among the bestsellers of the Late Middle Ages. The so-called Paupers' Bibles present the key events of the New Testament concisely and richly illustrated and can be described as a kind of medieval comic for theologically educated Christian readers. The Salzburg Biblia Pauperum, created between 1360 and 1370, is designed in an extremely dense and well-structured manner with colored pen and ink drawings, making it without question one of the most beautiful surviving examples of this widespread book genre. Each of the 18 pages is divided into 12 roughly square fields. Two “lines” of this layout form the primary pictorial elements and show a New Testament scene in the central section, which is flanked by two Old Testament miniatures. The latter are understood as foreshadowings (antitypes) of the central scene (type) by means of the associated texts above them – thus visualizing the “fulfilment” of the prefigurations of the Old Testament in the New Testament. This typological view of the Testaments has been common in Christianity since late antiquity. Further text elements are added in the form of banners, which belong to representations of prophets above the main images.

Codicology

Alternative Titles
Salzburger Armenbibel
Size / Format
18 pages / 32.5 × 23.5 cm
Origin
Austria
Date
Ca. 1370–1380
Style
Gothic
Language
Latin
Script
Gothic minuscule
Illustrations
36 complex pictorial clusters with 8 individual miniatures per page
Content
Biblia pauperum
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Salzburg Biblia Pauperum – Verlag Anton Pustet / Andreas Verlag – Codex a IX 12 – Stiftsbibliothek St. Peter (Salzburg, Austria)
#1 Die Salzburger Armenbibel
Verlag Anton Pustet / Andreas Verlag – Salzburg, 2020
Facsimile Editions

#1 Die Salzburger Armenbibel

Verlag Anton Pustet / Andreas Verlag – Salzburg, 2020
Salzburg Biblia Pauperum – Verlag Anton Pustet / Andreas Verlag – Codex a IX 12 – Stiftsbibliothek St. Peter (Salzburg, Austria)
Salzburg Biblia Pauperum – Verlag Anton Pustet / Andreas Verlag – Codex a IX 12 – Stiftsbibliothek St. Peter (Salzburg, Austria) Copyright Photos: Ziereis Facsimiles

Publisher: Verlag Anton Pustet / Andreas Verlag – Salzburg, 2020
Binding: Hardcover with red relief varnish
Commentary: 1 volume (81 pp.) by Karl Forstner
Language: German
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