Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Weltchronik
Germany, Regensburg, ca. 1360
MS M.769 fol. 104r

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Moses: Cloud over Tabernacle -- Group of Israelites includes: seven men, five wearing hats, two pointed, one holding staff with right hand, and another carrying keg (cask) on draped staff over right shoulder; two women, veiled, one also wearing hat, each holding hand of child, one wearing hood, the other wearing pointed hat, each holding staff. All are behind Moses, wearing pointed cap, holding staff with right hand, left hand indicating tent of tabernacle surrounded by cloud.
Margins decorated with vining floreate ornament.