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The company publishes and markets Bibles using two brands: Heirloom Bible Publishers and Fireside Catholic Publishing. Its customers are primarily institutional, such as Catholic churches, schools, fraternal lodges and labor unions. "Catholic churches and schools account for a large part of the company's business" DeVore says. [1]
A page from the Giant Bible of Mainz. The Giant Bible of Mainz is a very large manuscript Bible produced in 1452–53, probably in Mainz or nearby. It is notable for its beauty, for being one of the last manuscript Bibles written before the invention of printing in the West, and for its possible connections with the Gutenberg Bible. [1]
The giant bible was bought by Henri Schiller. [4] Schiller sold the bible to Sam Fogg (2003), who sold it to Paul Ruddock (2007), who sold it to the Idda Collection in Switzerland (2008). [4] It was finally sold for €4.5 million through Les Enluminures to the National Library of Luxembourg, who announced the acquisition on 5 November 2024.
The Giant Bible of Echternach is an illustrated giant bible that was made for Abbot Regimbert of the abbey of Echternach between 1051 and 1081. Today, it is kept in the National Library of Luxembourg as manuscript MS 264. [1] [2] [3] Prior to its acquisition by Luxembourg in 1951, it was in the Ducal Library of Gotha . [4]
Opening page of Genesis from the Doves Bible. The Doves Press was a private press based in Hammersmith, London. During nearly seventeen years of operation, Doves Press produced notable examples of twentieth-century typography. A distinguishing feature of its books was a specially-devised typeface, known variously as Doves Roman, Doves Press ...
The Biblia pauperum (Latin for "Paupers' Bible") was a tradition of picture Bibles beginning probably with Ansgar, and a common printed block-book in the later Middle Ages to visualize the typological correspondences between the Old and New Testaments. Unlike a simple "illustrated Bible", where the pictures are subordinated to the text, these ...