Adoration of the magi in the BibliaPauperum
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https://doi.org/10.26512/vis.v15i2.20200Keywords:
BibliaPauperum. Incunabula. Middle Ages. Woodcut. Reproduction.Abstract
In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries circulated freely two Bibles in Europe: the Vulgate, a Bible in Latin and the BibliaPauperum, an illustrated edition with short text for those who could not read; one of the first illustrated incunabula printed in Europe of anonymous authorship and date of appearance estimated around 1460. This book was printed by hand in the art of woodcut. Great popularizer of Christian Doctrine in the Middle Ages, copies remained preserved until today. Our object of study is the page of Epiphany is this Bible.
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