Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Bible
France, Paris, third quarter of the 13th century
MS M.494 fol. 478v

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Jonah: cast up -- Jonah, with his hands joined and raised, wearing loin cloth, emerges from mouth of whale into water. Above is building or city, possibly city of Nineveh, and head of Christ-Logos, cross-nimbed, emerging from cloud-edged arc of Heaven. Top half has background of burnished gold; lower half has background of blue diaper. All is within frame of pink and blue decorated with geometric ornament.
Beginning of Jonah.