The  Bible  of  King  Wenceslas

Bible of King Wenceslas, The (Codices Vindobonensis 2759-2764). Manuscript in the “textualis formata”, a gothic book type face modeled to the outmost perfection in two columns, in black and red. Prague about the end of the 14^th cent. 530 x 365 mm. With numerous text initials, partly large-sized

654  miniatures  +  picture  initials

on the biblical events in general and the symbolism of King Wenceslas’ Bible in particular and

All this in many colours inclusive of richest gold. Complete facsimile edition of the illuminated pages originally in respect of size, colours and hand-trimmed margins. 607 leaves or 1214 pp. in 8 vols. + documentary strongly reduced black-and-white reproduction of the text-only pages being unfinished relating to illustrations. Together 9 vols. 1981-98. Large 2°. Gold-stamped dark-brown leather on 5 ribs with the gold-stamped love-knot on frontcovers in slipcases with gold-stamped back-plate.

Added  like-wise in German:

1. Krieger, Michaela, Gerhard Schmidt and others. Die Wenzelsbibel. (Explanations to the illuminated pages. 1996. 4°. 230 pp. With 29 ills. Orig. cloth. – Commentary I.

2. Heger, Hedwig, Ivan Hlavacek, Gerhard Schmidt and others. Commentary II as a tour d’horizon. 1998. 4°. 250 pp. 1 l. With 239 ills. on plates. Orig. cloth.

One of 780 numbered copies only plus 30 others. – Vols. II ff. + commentary volumes also apart available; please ask for the conditions.

here by Martin Rotlöw into the German soon after 1388 and contemporarily realized as a work of art in the miniature painter’s school at Prague established by the German Emperor Charles IV, Wenceslas’ father, and worked just for the latter, being in its decoration the crown jewel of the whole group of “Wenceslas’ (splendid) manuscripts”. Beauty and importance of this first German Bible-part are so extraordinary that even a “marketeer” saw a chance to make a deal with it as a take-along reduced to just a third (sic!) of its size.  Here  now the  original  edition  as the only one sufficient to the pretensions of the original.
Offer no. 28,241 / EUR  19000. / Export price EUR  18050. (c. US$ 27008.) + shipping

– The same in half leather with the “love-knot” stamped in brown on the frontcovers
Offer no. 28,242 / EUR  16700. / Export price EUR  15865. (c. US$ 23739.) + shipping

* Export prices available only outside of the European Union