Kutnahorská Bible
A.D. 1489
Facsimile
Kutná Hora (German: Kuttenberg) was an old silver mining town in Bohemia, dating back to at least 1280. During the Middle Ages it was the largest town in Bohemia, and the residence of the Bohemian Kings. The town suffered much violence in the religious conflict between Catholicism and the Hussite reformers, and eventually became the center of Bohemian Protestantism for almost two centuries.
Jan Huss (1372-1415), the Bohemian reformer, was involved in a translation of the Bible into the Bohemian/Czech language from the Latin Vulgate. The first complete printed Bible in the Czech language was published in Prague in 1488. This edition printed in Kutná Hora in 1489 is significant as the first illustrated Bible in the Czech language.
This facsimile of the earliest illustrated Czech Bible has numerous woodcut graphics, as well as an abundance of both red and blue rubrications.
Jan Huss (1372-1415), the Bohemian reformer, was involved in a translation of the Bible into the Bohemian/Czech language from the Latin Vulgate. The first complete printed Bible in the Czech language was published in Prague in 1488. This edition printed in Kutná Hora in 1489 is significant as the first illustrated Bible in the Czech language.
This facsimile of the earliest illustrated Czech Bible has numerous woodcut graphics, as well as an abundance of both red and blue rubrications.
