BIBLIA PAUPERUM
\bˈɪbliə pˈɔːpəɹəm], \bˈɪbliə pˈɔːpəɹəm], \b_ˈɪ_b_l_i__ə p_ˈɔː_p_ə_ɹ_ə_m]\
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The books of the poor of Christ, i.e. the preaching clergy; a kind of mediaeval picture-book, of forty or fifty pages, each giving, with a text, some leading event of human salvation. A similar book in rime was Speculum Humana Salvationis. These were amongst the first books printed.
By Henry Percy Smith
