Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Bible historiale
France, Paris, ca. 1325
MS M.322 I, fol. 103v

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Aaron: Blossoming Rod -- Aaron, wearing pointed hat, holding blossoming rod in right hand and raising left hand stands next to tree and before group of three men, wearing caps, foremost gesturing toward Aaron, and two women, wearing hairnets, one with right hand on breast and the other raising right hand. Burnished gold background.
Frame of pink and blue decorated with geometric ornament. Geometric and foliate ornament, and animal head on extenders of initial E.
Illustration of Numbers 17:6-10.