Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Bible historiale
France, Paris, ca. 1325
MS M.322 I, fol. 30r

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Lot: warned by Angels -- Two angels, nimbed, emerging from clouds, holding books in left hands, with right hands, indicate Lot, wearing pointed hat, raising right hand, reclining on draped bed. Trees. Burnished gold background.
Frame of pink and blue decorated with geometric ornament. Geometric and foliate ornament on extenders of initial D.
Illustration of Genesis 19:15-16.