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- ↑ "Wenceslas Bible" in The Grove Encyclopedia of Medieval Art and Architecture, vol. 2, edited by Colum Hourihane (Oxford University Press, 2012), pp. 366-367
- ↑ Milada Studničková, "Bible of Konrad of Vechta", in Prague: The Crown of Bohemia, 1347-1437, exhibition catalogue, edited by Barbara Drake Boehm and Jiří Fajt (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York / Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2005), pp. 226-227.