Wenzelsbibel (Prag, 1390/1400), Faximile (Chromolithograph), erschienen 1897 - Stock-Grafiken

A page from the Wenceslas Bible - a splendid manuscript created between 1390 and 1400 in Prague. The German-language Bible was written and painted for King Wenceslaus IV of Bohemia. It contains a the oldest translations of the Old Testaments in English. The text is from Exodus 4, verse 4 - 15. Facsimile (chromolithograph) after an original medieval parchment in the Austrian National Library, Vienna, published in 1897.