Copyright © The British Library In the Biblia pauperum (Bible of the poor) a sequence of depictions of scenes from the life of Christ is linked to Old Testament subjects regarded as their prefigurations, a comparative device known as typology. Typically, one Old Testament ‘type’ is drawn from the time before Moses, or before the Law, and the other from the time after Moses, or under the Law. This lavish example demonstrates that the work’s modern title could be a misnomer. It may have been made for a member of the court at the Hague, Margaret of Cleves (d. 1411), the second wife of Albrecht, Duke of Bavaria and Count of Holland, and its accompanying Latin explanations are written entirely in gold, red, or blue. Here in the centre the infant Christ causes the idols to fall, prefigured on the left by Moses destroying the consecrated image of the calf, and on the right by the Ark of the Covenant causing Dagon to fall.