+Predictu’ p’hemiu’ hujus libri de conte’tis compilavi, Et p’pter paup’es p’dicatores hoc apponere curavi; Qui si forte nequieru’t totum librum sibi co’p’are, Possu’t ex ipso p’hemio, si sciu’t p’dicare.+ This preface of contents, stating what this book’s about, For the sake of all _poor preachers_ I have fairly written out; If the purchase of the book entire should be above their reach, This preface yet may serve them, if they know but how to preach. [Footnote II-60: “Entre ces abrégés [de la Bible] on remarque le SPECULUM HUMANÆ SALVATIONIS et le BIBLIA PAUPERUM. Ces deux ouvrages ont beaucoup d’affinité entre eux pour le volume, le choix des histoires, les moralités, la composition des tableaux. Ils existent en manuscrits dans plusieurs bibliothèques.”--Camus, Notice d’un Livre, &c. p. 12.] That the other book might be called “Biblia Pauperum _Predicatorum_,” in consequence of its general use by mendicant preachers, I can readily believe; and no doubt the omission of the word “predicatorum” in the inscription copied by Heineken has given rise to the popular error, that the pretended “Biblia Pauperum” was a kind of cheap pictorial Bible, especially intended for the use of the poor. It is, in fact, a series of “skeleton sermons” ornamented with wood-cuts to warm the preacher’s imagination, and stored with texts to assist his memory. In speaking of this book in future, I shall always refer to it as the “Biblia Pauperum Predicatorum,”--“the Poor Preachers’ Bible;” for the continuance of its former title only tends, in my opinion, to disseminate an error.