Biblia Pauperum

American  

[bib-lee-ah pou-pe-room, bib-lee-uh paw-per-uhm] / ˈbɪb li ɑ ˈpaʊ pɛˌrʊm, ˈbɪb li ə ˈpɔ pər əm /

noun

1. any of the picture books illustrating Biblical events and usually containing a short text, used chiefly in the Middle Ages for purposes of religious instruction.

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Etymology

Origin of Biblia Pauperum

< New Latin: literally, Bible of poor men

Example Sentences

An illustration of the apocalypse in a Biblia Pauperum from around the time of the European famine of 1315–1317.

From Slate • Apr. 16, 2014

The most important of these is a German Biblia Pauperum quite distinct from those started in the Netherlands.

From Fine Books by Pollard, Alfred W. (Alfred William)

The Biblia Pauperum, however, exactly met their want.

From The Story of Books by Rawlings, Gertrude Burford

They are both exceedingly close copies of engravings in the Biblia Pauperum, or Poor Man’s Bible, otherwise called “Speculum Humanæ Salvationis,” or the Mirror of Human Salvation.

From The Grotesque in Church Art by Wildridge, T. Tindall

He made a "kalendar for unlearned men," which is both a Biblia Pauperum and Annales Angliae, because the annals of England were to him a new Bible.

From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Wells A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See by Dearmer, Percy