Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Bible moralisée is a later name for the most important of the medieval picture bibles, sometimes called "biblia pauperum", though they were extremely expensive, to have survived. It is a heavily illustrated illuminated manuscript of the thirteenth century, and from the copies that still survive it is clear that it existed in at least two versions. They were similar in the choice and order of the Biblical texts selected, but differed in the allegorical and moral deductions drawn from these passages. Each page pairs Old and New Testament episodes with illustrations explaining their moral signicance in terms of typology.