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Lipnice Bible Online

Publication at Protestant Theological Faculty, Faculty of Arts |
2022

Abstract

The Lipnice Bible codex, currently in the Museum of the Bible in the USA (with the signature GC MS 000486), was the subject of extensive studies that resulted in a collective publication "Lipnická bible: Štít víry v neklidných časech pozdního středověku". This late medieval Bible codex reveals much about book production during the tumultuous period of Hussite wars in Bohemia: a colophon in golden ink following the main text of the Bible refers to the Bible codex as to "a shield of faith", a hint at the ongoing heated religious debates of the period; its decoration was carried out gradually in different stages, as the wars disrupted the work on the manuscript - a characteristic that it shares with some other Bibles from the period, whose decoration was in some cases never even finished - and its main scribe, who was responsible for copying of the main biblical text, had a unique style suggesting he perhaps was not a professional.

These crucial details and many others - results of the aforementioned studies - were carefully noted and added to a created, browsable digitized edition of the Bible. This presentation focused on the introduction of the resulting web application, and of its features that could aid any further research in the field, and offered insights into the process of the app's creation with regard to the extensive annotations that it contains.