Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Bible historiale
France, Paris, ca. 1325
MS M.322 I, fol. 6r

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Christ, nimbed, beardless, resting head on raised right hand and right elbow on left hand, is seated on arc within round mandorla, surrounded by eight angels, nimbed, emerging from clouds, playing musical instruments, including gittern, fiddle, drum, shawm (?), psaltery, bell, trumpet, and portative organ.
Miniature with background of pink, blue and gold diaper, and burnished gold with frame of pink and blue decorated with gold and geomentric ornament. Geometric ornament and rinceau in margin inhabited by two birds, one hovering above the other. In lower margin, two rabbits chased by either cat and dog or by two dogs.