Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Histoire de la Bible et de l’Assomption de Notre-Dame
France, Paris, between 1390 and 1400
MS M.526. Fol. 015v

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Moses: crossing Red Sea -- In left column, soldiers, wearing helmets and armor, carrying spears, some with shields on land amid trees; bodies of more soldiers floating in water, two with spears, one with sword at waist; halberd floating in water.
Moses: sweetening Waters of Marah -- In right column, Moses, wearing hat, drops branch into wellhead. Two women, one wearing headdress, and man wearing hat, two holding pitchers, stand opposite Moses.