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Blockbooks, in which images and text are carved from a single woodblock, were the earliest form of printed text in Europe, preceding the invention of moveable type. The <em>Biblia Pauperum</em> is an early blockbook bible that served as a handbook for poor clerics and friars in northern Europe. The folios here feature a New Testament scene flanked by two  from the Old Testament. The page to the left depicts the baptism of Christ centered between Pharoah’s drowned army in the Red Sea and spies returning with grapes from Canaan. The page to the right illustrates the temptation of Christ bordered by Esau selling his birthright to Jacob and the temptation of Adam and Eve. Arched windows above and below the main scenes contain the prophets flanked by explanatory texts.</div>
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<span lang="en">Anonymous</span><span style="display:none">Unknown author</span></div>
between 1450 and 1465 <div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1450-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1450-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1465-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>
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