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]

This article is about a 15th-century illuminated manuscript Bible. For the 16th-century polyglot Bible printed in Antwerp, see Plantin Polyglot.

References
  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
  • 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.
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