The Velislav Bible, the finest picture-bible of the late middle ages: "Biblia depicta" as devotional, mnemonic and study tool
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 ro...