Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Weltchronik
Germany, Regensburg, ca. 1360
MS M.769 fol. 140v

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Gideon: Offering consumed -- Standing next to altar, Gideon holds bowl containing loaves with right hand and with left hand drops loaf onto altar on which are five loaves. Fire descends from cloud to the altar. At right angel, nimbed, raises right hand toward the cloud and with left hand indicates the altar.