Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Bible
France, Paris, third quarter of the 13th century
MS M.494 fol. 484v

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Haggai: communicating with God -- Haggai, right hand raised, left hand on left knee holding scroll with pseudo-inscription, kneels on one knee looking toward head of Christ-Logos, cross-nimbed, emerging from cloud-edged arc of Heaven. Scene, with two trees, has background of pink diaper with sections of burnished gold within frame of pink and blue decorated with geometric ornament.
Beginning of Haggai.