Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Histoire de la Bible et de l’Assomption de Notre-Dame
France, Paris, between 1390 and 1400
MS M.526. Fol. 022r

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Solomon: Judgment -- Solomon, crowned, sitting on bench, indicates with right hand nude infant, held upsidedown by executioner, raising sword with right hand, grasping left leg of the infant with left hand. At right, foremost of two women, veiled, kneels with joined hands extended; the other woman indicates the infant with right hand. Second infant, swaddled, reclines between Salomon and the executioner.
Pen-flourished initials.