Scriptum super Apocalypsim Wenceslai Doctoris

Bohemia, fifteenth century
Littera bastarda

Bibliotheca Capituli semper Fidelis Metropolitani Pragensis, Prague (Czech Republic)

Date of Publication of the Facsimile: 1873
Photolithographer: Henry Eckert, Prague (Bohemia)

This is an early Czech photolithography of a fifteenth-century Bohemian manuscript of a Latin commentary on the Apocalypse. There are but few illuminations such as this one, of the Woman and the Beast.

Color lithography did not exist until the earlier part of this century.

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