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This article is about the 16th-century bible. For the 11th-century giant bible, see Giant Bible of Saint Maximin.

The Maximiner Riesenbibel ('Maximin Giant Bible') is an illustrated giant bible [es] in three volumes that was made in the abbey of Saint Maximin in Trier in the early 16th century. It is privately owned but is on permanent loan to the Trier Cathedral Treasury, where it is on display.

The Riesenbibel was begun during the abbacy of Thomas de Huisdem (r. 1502–1514) by the monk Vincent de Cochem and completed in 1526 or 1527 by the monk Jacob Gladbach. The parchment of the manuscript and the calligraphy are of the highest quality. The work required the purchase of nearly 1,000 hides. The continued production of deluxe manuscript bibles after the introduction of the printing press may have been a deliberate act of resistance to the new technology by the Bursfelde Congregation.

The Riesenbibel contains the earliest copy of the Historia Excidii Sancti Maximini, an historical account of the background and aftermath of the sack of Saint Maximin in 1522.

References

  1. "Maximin Giant Bible in Trier Treasury". Picture Alliance. 2022.
  2. Bastien Dubuisson, "Les transformations d'un recueil hagiographique monumental: Le grand légendier de Saint-Maximin de Trèves aux xiv–xvi siècles", in Fernand Peloux, ed., Des saints et des livres: Christianisme flamboyant et manuscrits hagiographiques du Nord à la fin du Moyen Âge (xiii–xvi siècles) (Brepols, 2021), pp. 409–441. doi:10.1484/M.HAG-EB.5.126302
  3. Bastien Dubuisson, A Monk's Legacy: OCR, Lemmatization, and Computational Exploration of Some of the Works of Johannes Scheckmann of Trier († 1531), PhD dissertation, KU Leuven (2019), p. 21.

Further reading

  • Bezner, Frank (2011). Von der Liturgie zur Geschichte: Die Riesenbibel von St. Maximin und die Historia Excidii Sancti Maximini. Tenschert.
  • Stork, Hans-Walter (2018). "Die Maximiner Riesenbibel mit einem Anhang: Maximiner Handschriften des 15. und 16. Jahrhunderts". In Michael Embach; Bernhard Simon (eds.). Die Abtei Trier-St. Maximin von der späten Antike bis zur frühen Neuzeit. Gesellschaft für Mittelrheinische Kirchengeschichte. pp. 191–216.
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