Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Bible historiale
France, Paris, ca. 1325
MS M.323 II, fol. 51v

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Solomon, wearing pointed hat, is seated cross-legged on chair, holding knife in left hand and quill in right hand on open book on lectern. Above, angel, nimbed, extending right hand toward Solomon and holding book in left hand, emerges from cloud-edged arc of Heaven. Diapered background; tree.
Frame of blue decorated with gold and geometric ornament. Geometric and foliate ornament inhabited by bird, on extenders of initial A.
Illustration at the beginning of Wisdom of Solomon.