Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Historien Bibel
Germany, between 1375 and 1400
MS M.268 fol. 26v

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Upper half: Christ: among Doctors -- At left, youthful Christ, cross-nimbed, with both hands holding possibly pen and knife, to unfurling scroll with pseudo-inscriptions held in lap, seated on stepped chair, surrounded below by seven Doctors, four wearing hats or headgear, one wearing Jew’s hat, two gesturing and two reading from open books or scrolls with pseudo-inscriptions. Christ: Purging of Temple -- At right, within temple, Christ, cross-nimbed, with right hand holding whip and with left hand topples table from which falls sack of coins and platter in which are coins, beside another table with another sack of coins; four figures (money changers), one hooded, in background and gesturing. Lower half: Christ: Miracle of healing -- At left, Christ, cross-nimbed, extending both hands over man, partly nude but under covers, seated upright in bed, head on pillow, with joined hands raised. Top right stands three nimbed apostles, the foremost with joined hands raised. Scene in bedroom with arched openings. Christ: stoned -- At right, Christ, cross-nimbed, departs from raised platform decorated with lattice, down stairway. To far right, among six men, three wear headgear, and all hold stones in raised right hands.