Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Bible historiale
France, Paris, ca. 1325
MS M.322 I, fol. 221r

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Job: Sacrifice for Children -- Job, wearing pointed hat, stands before chair, raising left hand and looking up toward head of Christ-Logos, cross-nimbed, emerging from cloud-edged arc of Heaven above altar. Diapered background.
Frame of blue decorated with gold and geometric ornament. Geometric and foliate ornament, and animal head in initial E, and in left margin.
Illustration of Job 1:5.