Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Bible
Austria, perhaps Vienna, ca. 1435
MS M.230 fol. 17r

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New Testament:
Christ: Crucifixion -- Christ, nimbed, with crown of thorns, head inclined, wearing short loincloth, is affixed with three nails to cross with titulus INRI. At left are two Holy Women, veiled, with wimple, one holding draped right hand to face. Virgin Mary nimbed and veiled with wimple, arms crossed on breast, stands next to Evangelist John, his right arm around her. At right, man, possibly Longinus of Jerusalem, indicating Christ with right hand, holding shield with left hand, looks back over left shoulder toward another man holding bannered spear.
Caption DIE ERHÖHUNG DES HERREN AM CREUTZ is above miniature.
Prophets:
At left, half-figure of Isaiah, holding with right hand scroll with inscription cited as Isaiah 53; below half-figure of Jeremiah, wearing hat, holding with both hands scroll inscription cited as Jeremiah 1.
At right, half-figure of Jeremiah, holding with both hands scroll with inscription cited as Jeremiah 7; below, half-figure of David, wearing hat, backturned, indicating left with right hand, scroll, draped over left shoulder, with inscription cited as Psalm 21.
Old Testament:
1) Abraham: sacrificing Isaac -- Abraham, wearing purse at waist, raises sword with right hand, holding with left hand head of Isaac, with joined hands, wearing bundle of fagots on back, kneeling at feet of Abraham. At upper right, above altar, half-figure of angel, gesturing with right hand, grasps blade of the sword with left hand. Ram is in background at left, next to wattle fence.
Description below miniature with citation for Genesis 22.
2) Moses: Serpent of Brass -- Six men, one wearing hat, two wearing headgear, one wearing hood, three with joined hands, all kneel, some looking up toward serpent, mouth open, hanging in crook of cut tree. Two men recline on ground at base of the tree. Moses, gesturing with both hands, wearing purse at waist stands at right.
Description below miniature with citation for Numbers 21.