Biblia Pauperum Conteynynge Thirty and Eight Wodecuttes Illustrating the Liif, Parablis, and Miraclis Offe Oure Blessid Lord and Saviour Jhesus Crist, with the Proper Descrypciouns Therof Extracted Fro the Originall Texte Offe Iohn Wiclif

Excerpt from Biblia Pauperum: Conteynynge Thirty and Eight Wodecuttes Illustrating the Liif, Parablis, and Miraclis Offe Oure Blessid Lord and Saviour Jhesus Crist, With the Proper Descrypciouns Therof Extracted Fro the Originall d104e Offe Iohn Wiclif Book, as Victor Hugo obferved, Coming into exiltence at the moment when the great age of the building of Churches was pafling away, fo that m his forcible language, it was faid, This will kill that - the Book will kill the Church; or, as we might, in a kindlier fpirit, exprefs it, the Church has g1ven birth to the Book. In like manner thefe Antique Woodcuts, dating only (even years before the firft appearance of Caxton's firf't printed Englilh Book, are a fitting memorial of the epoch, commemorated by the Caxton Celebration, when the Bible' of the Poor for the hit time appeared in the guife of pictures, before it pafi'ed into cheap, multifarious, illimitable Bibles, which lhould permeate throught all clafl'es far more effectually than any pictorial reprefentatlons. It is exactly the point of meeting, the crofiing, as it were, of the two arts - the image pafiing into fubfiance the later education of thought and fpirit taking the place of the earlier education of fenfe and figure. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.