Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Bible
France, Paris, third quarter of the 13th century
MS M.494 fol. 485v

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Zechariah: Calling -- Zechariah, wearing peaked hat, holding scroll with pseudo-inscription in right hand and raising left hand, is seated on bench, looking up toward head of Christ-Logos, cross-nimbed, emerging from cloud-edged arc of Heaven. Scene has background of blue diaper and burnished gold within frame of pink and blue decorated with geometric ornament.
Beginning of Zechariah (Vulg., Zacharias).