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The Giant Bible of Mainz is a very large manuscript Bible produced in 1452–53, probably in Mainz or nearby. It is notable for its beauty, for being one of the last manuscript Bibles written before the invention of printing in the West, and for its possible connections with the Gutenberg Bible.[1]

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Giant Bible of Mainz

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The Giant Bible of Mainz is a very large manuscript Bible produced in 1452–53, probably in Mainz or nearby. It is notable for its beauty, for being one...

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Master of the Playing Cards

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miniatures of the Giant Bible of Mainz of 1452–3 and other illuminations made in Mainz between then and 1482, including at least one illuminated copy of the...

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Ashkenaz

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ʾAškənāz) in the Hebrew Bible is one of the descendants of Noah. Ashkenaz is the first son of Gomer, and a Japhetic patriarch in the Table of Nations. In rabbinic...

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Pergamon Altar

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use of the altar and possible ways of sacrificing see Max Kunze: Der Pergamonaltar. Seine Geschichte, Entdeckung und Rekonstruktion. von Zabern, Mainz 1995...

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Marc Chagall

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Publishing "Jewish Life and Times in Medieval Mainz" Archived 10 January 2009 at the Wayback Machine, City of Mainz website "All Saints' Church, Tudeley". Archived...

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Baetylus

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Hebrew Bible, Bethel (meaning "House of God"), is where Jacob had his vision of Jacob's ladder. Coming upon the place at nightfall, the Book of Genesis...

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Catholic Church in Germany

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which reaches back to both Saint Boniface, the "Apostle of Germany" and the first Archbishop of Mainz, buried in Fulda, and to Charlemagne, buried at Aachen...

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List of pharaohs

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Ägyptologische Studien 46. Mainz am Rhein, 1997 Jürgen von Beckerath: Handbuch der ägyptischen Königsnamen, Münchner ägyptologische Studien 49, Mainz 1999. Marcel Marée:...

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British Library

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printing, one of 10 extant copies, Mainz, Germany (1457) Copy of the Bamberg or 36-line Bible, the second moveable-type-printed edition of the Bible from Bamberg...

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Neanderthal 1

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im Rheinischen Museum Bonn, Zabern-Verlag, Mainz, S. 123-132 ISBN 978-3805336024 Michael Schultz: Results of the anatomical-palaeopathological investigations...

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Ramesses II

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Chronologie des Pharaonischen Ägypten. Mainz: Philipp von Zabern. Brand, Peter J. (2000). The Monuments of Seti I: Epigraphic, Historical and Art Historical...

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Xerxes I

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ägyptischen Königsnamen. Mainz: Von Zabern. ISBN 3-8053-2310-7, pp. 220–221 Littman, R. J.. "The Religious Policy of Xerxes and the 'Book of Esther'". The Jewish...

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Apollo

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Ronde in Mainz vom 11.–12. März 2004: 16. ISBN 978-3-89646-441-5. "KN 842 E", DĀMOS: Database of Mycenaean at Oslo, University of Oslo. Department of Philosophy...

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Bob Dylan

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University of Mainz, the University of Vienna, and the University of Bristol invited literary critics and cultural historians to give papers on aspects of Dylan's...

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List of Mesopotamian deities

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kings, giants, and even demons. The effect that seeing a deity's melam has on a human is described as ni, a word for the "physical creeping of the flesh"...

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History of immigration to the United States

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Church of England, the church quickly deteriorated. It was against the law to own of copy of the Word of God, but the Puritans could read the Bible in their...

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Younger Dryas impact hypothesis

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Atlantic and Central European region. A press release from the University of Mainz stated, "Due to the new dating, the European archives now have to be temporally...

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List of Christians in science and technology

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theologian and botanist from Mainz, Germany. His Catalogi virorum illustrium is considered to be the first book on the history of evangelical sects that had...

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Unetanneh Tokef

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its portrayal of Amnon as an illustrious Torah giant, while Jewish history of that period provides no record of a 'Rav Amnon of Mainz' at all. It seems...

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Medieval antisemitism

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Frankfurt, and Mainz were wiped out at this time."(1406) In one such case, a man named Agimet was ... coerced to say that Rabbi Peyret of Chambéry (near...

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Ossian

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crowned by his burial among the literary giants in Westminster Abbey. W. P. Ker, in the Cambridge History of English Literature, observes that "all Macpherson's...

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Lund Cathedral

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the death of Emperor Henry IV. Similarities have also frequently been pointed out between Lund Cathedral and Mainz Cathedral, and the design of the apse...

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Walk of Ideas

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letterpress in Mainz around 1450 and created the first bestseller in history with the Gutenberg Bible. Of the approximately 180 original copies of the first...

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