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copy, engraved probably between
1410 - 1420. The Biblia or "Poor Mans
Bible" is mainly picture, and
was a laudable attempt - in an
age when M.S.S. were expensive,
and ability to read was rare, - to
popularize the main facts and
dogmans of "The Book's" teaching; to popularize
much in the same crude coarse
fashion as was tried by the
church, in the Miracle-play, the mystery play,
and the Passion-play.

To get some idea of its page Imagine with me a frame-work
for an ornamental - or rather
eclesiastical - window,
divided into 9 panels - 3
across, and 3 down. The
3 middle horizontal panels
are wholly pictorial; the
centre one illustrating some
point in the life or the then accepted doctrine