Biblia Pauperum

Biblia Pauperum (the Bible of the Poor), a book which marks a stage in the history of printing. It was a "block book," printed early in the 15th century from wood blocks, and contained forty engravings of scenes from the life of Christ, with explanatory inscriptions, printed from letters cut on the same block as the picture. Some of the chapel windows in Lambeth Palace are copied from some of the designs, and the work has been published in facsimile.