Antwerp Bible

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.

Detail of decoration from the Antwerp Bible

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]

## References

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1. ^ "Wenceslas Bible" in The Grove Encyclopedia of Medieval Art and Architecture, vol. 2, edited by Colum Hourihane (Oxford University Press, 2012), pp. 366-367
2. ^ 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.

## Further reading

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* Studničková, Milada (2006-01-01). "The Bible of Konrad of Vechta: Stylistic Change in Bohemian Book Illumination". Manuscripta. 50 (2): 269–299\. doi:10.1484/J.MSS.2.302063. ISSN 0025-2603.

## External links

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* The illuminations in Konrad Vechta's Bible