Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Bible
France, Paris, third quarter of the 13th century
MS M.494 fol. 171r

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Hannah: praying in Temple -- Eli, wearing hat, arms raised, stands behind Hannah, wearing hairnet, hands joined and raised, kneeling before draped altar. Above altar, head of Christ-Logos, cross-nimbed, beardless emerges from cloud-edged arc of Heaven.
Scene against background of burnished gold, within frame of pink and blue with geometric and vine scroll ornament.
Beginning of I Samuel (Vulg. I Kings).