Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Weltchronik
Germany, Regensburg, ca. 1360
MS M.769 fol. 87r

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Moses: crossing Red Sea -- Group of soldiers, wearing armor, and Pharoah, crowned, are all astride horses with mouths open under water. At right, next to water, Moses, wearing hat, rod in right hand, looks back toward group of men, three wearing hats, and woman, veiled, and two children. Man and woman carry bundle on rod over right shoulder; another man carries cask on rod over right shoulder.