The Velislav Bible, Finest Picture-Bible of the Late Middle Ages

The essays in this monograph appraoch The Velislav Bible, one of the most beautiful medieval Bohemian manuscripts, in an interdisciplinary manner to show that it was used as a didactic tool in clerics' education.

Auteur

Lenka PanuSková is a PhD researcher at the Institute of Art History at the Czech Academy of Sciences.

Contenu

I. Studying the Velislav Bible: An Overview (Anna Kernbach and Lenka Panusková)II. Text and Image in the Velislav Bible: To the Interpretation of an Illuminated Codex (Anna Kernbach and Lenka Panusková)III. The Velislav Bible in the Context of the Late Medieval Biblical Narratives and Mnemotechnics (Lucie Dole alová)IV. The Books of Genesis and Exodus in the Picture Bibles: Looking for an Audience (Lenka Panusková)V. Life of Antichrist in the Velislav Bible (Pavlína Cermanová)VI. Ostensio thesaurum Antichristi: Iconography of the Pictorial Narrative Vita Antichristi in the Velislav Bible (Katerina Hornícková)VII. Ibi predicit hominibus: Searching for the Practical Function of the Velislav Bible (Milena Bartlová)VIII. Edition of the Tituli (Anna Kernbach)Primary SourcesBibliographyList of ManuscriptsList of IllustrationsGeneral Index