Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Bible
France, Paris, third quarter of the 13th century
MS M.494 fol. 483v

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Zephaniah: Calling -- Zephaniah, wearing peaked hat, raising right hand and holding scroll, with pseudo-inscription, in left hand, kneels looking up toward head of Christ-Logos emerging from cloud-edged arc of Heaven. Figure has background of pink diaper and burnished gold within frame of pink and blue decorated with geometric ornament.
Beginning of Zephaniah (Vulg., Sophonias).