From Flickr: “Woodcut opening from Biblia pauperum” by University of Glasgow Library

April 23, 2015 Uncategorized

Biblia pauperum. Xylographic blockbook. [Netherlands: ca. 1460]. Double opening of woodcut plates nine and ten depicting the baptism of Christ (flanked by Old Testament scenes: drowned Egyptians and spies carrying grapes) and the Temptation of Christ (flanked by Old Testament scenes: Jacob and Esau, and the fall of Adam and Eve). Sp Coll Hunterian Ds.2.4.

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