Early 15th-century illuminated manuscript Bible
This article is about a 15th-century illuminated manuscript Bible. For the 16th-century polyglot Bible printed in Antwerp, see
Plantin Polyglot.
The Antwerp Bible or Bible of Konrad of Vechta is an early 15th-century illuminated manuscript Bible, preserved in the Plantin-Moretus Museum, Antwerp, Belgium. Its illuminations are modeled on those in the Wenceslas Bible. The manuscript was probably produced for Conrad of Vechta,[1] controller of the Royal Mint (1401-3) and later the Chancellor to Wenceslas IV of Bohemia. It was acquired by the Moretus family in 1805.[2]
- ^ "Wenceslas Bible" in The Grove Encyclopedia of Medieval Art and Architecture, vol. 2, edited by Colum Hourihane (Oxford University Press, 2012), pp. 366-367
- ^ Milada Studničková, "Bible of Konrad of Vechta", in Prague: The Crown of Bohemia, 1347-1437, exhibition catalogue, edited by Barbara Drake Boehm and Jiří Fajt (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York / Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2005), pp. 226-227.