Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Bible historiale
France, Paris, ca. 1325
MS M.323 II, fol. 79v

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Isaiah: communicating with God -- Isaiah, wearing pointed hat, is seated cross-legged on chair holding scroll on his lap with left hand and writing with right hand. Above, angel, nimbed, wingless, extending right hand and holding book in left hand, emerges from cloud-edged arc of Heaven. God not represented. Diapered background; tree.
Frame of blue decorated with gold and geometric ornament. Geometric and foliate ornament, and rabbit, on extenders of initial L.
Illustration at the beginning of Isaiah.