Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Rouen, ca. 1500
MS H.1 fol. 66v

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Solomon: Judgment -- Solomon, name inscribed SALOMON, wearing hat with crown, raising right hand, holding scepter with left hand, is seated on throne with canopy and with footrest. At left stands executioner wearing hat, holding sword with right hand and nude infant with left. At right, one of five figures, man wearing turban-like headgear, looks toward and indicates man, wearing hat standing next to him. Only tops of heads of other three figures are visible. In foreground, nude infant reclines on floor, flanked by two women. At left, woman, veiled, with joined hands, kneels, eyes shut. At right, the other woman, wearing jeweled turban-like headdress stands extending right hand.
On uprights of frame enclosing miniature, four statues stand on pediments below canopies.