The Velislav Bible, Finest Picture-Bible of the Late Middle Ages : : Biblia Depicta as Devotional, Mnemonic and Study Tool / / Lenka Panušková.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter AUP eBook Package 2016-2018
• TeilnehmendeR: Panušková, Lenka,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Central European Medieval Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource :; 40 color plates, 50 halftones, 10 line art
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Table of Contents --; Preface --; I. Studying the Velislav Bible /; II. Image and Text in the Velislav Bible /; III. The Velislav Bible in the Context of Late Medieval Biblical Retellings and Mnemonic Aids /; IV. The Books of Genesis and Exodus in the Picture Bibles /; V. The Life of Antichrist in the Velislav Bible /; VI. The Antichrist Cycle in the Velislav Bible and the Representation of the Intellectual Community /; VII. Ibi predicit hominibus : In Search of the Practical Function of the Velislav Bible /; VIII. The Velislav Bible: Critical Edition with Commentary /; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9789048529735; 9783110667318; 9783110606720; 9783110604252; 9783110603255; 9783110604030; 9783110603149
• DOI: 10.1515/9789048529735?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Lenka Panušková.

The Velislav Bible, one of the most beautiful medieval Bohemian manuscripts, is a bible imageé in which pictorial narrative dominates the written word, blending, at the same time, common biblical texts with a local legend about the patron of medieval Bohemia, St. Wenceslas. Deliberating about the role of this Bible, the essays collected in this monograph approach its manuscript in an interdisciplinary manner. By combining historical and textual analyses with the surveys of the Bible's art and iconography, this first modern edition of the Velislav Bible and its tituli shows that it was used as a didactic tool in clerics' education.