Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

La vérité à la place des ombres
France, Paris, 1679
MS M.21 fol. 106r

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Below a plaque with the quotation, QUID EST HOC, Israelites, before their tents in the desert, watch the fall of manna. There is a pool of water in the foreground, an outcrop beyond the tents, and mountains in the distance. The scene is painted as if a tapestry. There is a quatrain below. The frame consists of burnished and dull gold bands.