Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Compilatio historiarum totius Bibliae et historiarum scholasticarum
Austria, ca. 1420
MS M.192 fol. 1v

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Medallion, upper:
Adam and Eve: commanded by God -- Emerging from cloud, half-figure of Christ-Logos, crossed nimbus, indicates tree with left hand and looks toward Eve and Adam, flanking tree.
Medallion, lower:
Adam and Eve: Fall of Man -- Serpent, with body of quadruped, long tail and human head with horn, holding fruit in left forepaw entwines around tree. Flanking tree are Eve, reaching to fruit on tree with left hand, and Adam, extending right hand toward tree.