Leaf from The Tenth German Bible
Printer: Reinhard (Hans) Grueninger (German, active 1480s)
Date: 1485
Dimensions:
Overall: 7 3/4 x 11 3/8 in. (19.7 x 28.9 cm)
Medium: Hand colored woodcut
Place of Origin: Germany (Strassburg)
Classification: Books
Object number: 1929.169
Label Text:Most Bibles were in Latin, but there was increasing demand by the German reading public to have Bibles in their own language. With illustrations, these Bibles became elucidating story books.
This text, from the First Book of the Maccabees (Chapter 6) in The Apocrypha, is about King Antiochus, who was hoping to conquer Elymais, a town in Persia, which was renowned for the gold and silver treasury left there by Alexander the Great. His attempts faiiled, and when he heard of further defeats to his other troops fighting elsewhere, he took to his bed with a sickness caused by extreme distress and grief. The illustration shows a group of knights in armor, with King Antiochus in golden armor, near an elephant carrying several warriors. The roofs of the town are in the distance. The scene depicted is of the turning point in th story when King Antiochus hears the bad news of his military losses.
This text, from the First Book of the Maccabees (Chapter 6) in The Apocrypha, is about King Antiochus, who was hoping to conquer Elymais, a town in Persia, which was renowned for the gold and silver treasury left there by Alexander the Great. His attempts faiiled, and when he heard of further defeats to his other troops fighting elsewhere, he took to his bed with a sickness caused by extreme distress and grief. The illustration shows a group of knights in armor, with King Antiochus in golden armor, near an elephant carrying several warriors. The roofs of the town are in the distance. The scene depicted is of the turning point in th story when King Antiochus hears the bad news of his military losses.
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