Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Weltchronik
Germany, Regensburg, ca. 1360
MS M.769 fol. 44r

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Lot: Departure from Sodom -- Lot, holding staff in right hand, and bundle over left shoulder, is followed by two women, veiled, one carrying cask over right shoulder. Below, Lot’s wife turns to salt. At right, fire drops from clouds to burning and flooded cities of Sodom and Gomorrah; men stand on city walls, arms raised, bodies of men and women, veiled float under the water