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The origin and fate of the Lipnice Bible

Publication at Faculty of Arts |
2021

Abstract

A brief overview of the production of which little is known. The codex is in its colophon associated with a certain Matthias de Rudnicz (i.e.

Roudnice nad Labem) but nothing is known about this person. It is also not certain where the codex, finished in Lipnice, was produced and how it left the Czech lands.

It reappears only in the 20th century, included in the collection of Charles Dyson Perrins (1864-1958), who certainly acquired it before 1920 but it is not known where. It changed owners several times before entering the private Green collection in 2011 from where it was given to the Museum of the Bible.