The Gruber Rare Books Collection and Other Rare Books
Pre Reformation Bibles - Biblia Pauperum
(The Bible of the Poor)
This Bible sought to portray the historical books of the Bible visually. Different from illustrated Bibles, this Bible put the illustration in the center, with only a brief text or even no text at all.
Gruber 23 Biblia pauperum. Deutsche Ausgabe von 1471. Weimar, 1906. Facsimile.
See The Internet Biblia Pauperum
The Gruber Collection was assembled by L. Franklin Gruber, President of Chicago Lutheran Theological Seminary, Maywood, Illinois.
Annotation prepared by Ralph W Klein