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Biblia Pauperum (Pauper's Bible)

Netherlandish 15th Century, 1465-1470

21 cm × 28 cm

About the size of a sheet of A4. You would need 6 of them to reach a person's height.

Against things you know the size of

Height: 28 cm
Width: 21 cm
Medium: bound volume with 40 hand-colored pages printed from 20 woodblocks. The left side of each sheet (left page) was glued to the right side of the preceding sheet, and the right side of each sheet (right page) to the left side of the succeeding page.
Kind: Volume
Where the measurement comes from: Measured by the museum. The dimension is the one recorded by the institution that holds the work.
Credit: Anonymous Gift

Five questions, answered from its own record. What is AGAI?

How big is it?: 21 cm × 28 cm. About the size of a sheet of A4. Measured by the museum.
When was it made, and when is it everyone’s?: Made 1465-1470. It is in the public domain, and National Gallery of Art publishes it for open use.
Whose is it?: Everyone’s to see. It is held by National Gallery of Art: Anonymous Gift.
How was it made?: Bound volume with 40 hand-colored pages printed from 20 woodblocks. The left side of each sheet (left page) was glued to the right side of the preceding sheet, and the right side of each sheet (right page) to the left side of the succeeding page..
Who speaks for it?: Its record at National Gallery of Art. Measured by the museum. This gallery adds nothing it cannot cite.

This work is in the reference only. The gallery hangs a selection of the collection at real size.

One email. The smallest thing in the collection, the largest, and two that hang well together.

Scored on colour, shape, era and scale, the same way the gallery hangs them.