Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Bible
France, Paris, third quarter of the 13th century
MS M.494 fol. 126r

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Joshua: God's Charge -- Joshua, wearing peaked hat, holding, in right hand, scroll inscribed IOSUE (PRO)PHETE, kneeling on one knee, raises left hand toward half figure of Christ-Logos, cross-nimbed, raising right hand, holding tripartite globe in left hand, emerging from cloud-edged arc of Heaven. Scene against background of pink and blue diaper, within frame of pink and blue with geometric ornament.
Beginning of Joshua.