Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Weltchronik
Germany, Regensburg, ca. 1360
MS M.769 fol. 46r

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Hagar and Ishmael: in Wilderness -- Half-figure of angel, nimbed, emerging from clouds indicates with right hand and touches with left hand, blank scroll. Below, Hagar, veiled, with joined hands raised, is seated on ground, before rocky mound. Ishmael, as infant, nude, sits on the rocks.