Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Bible historiale
France, Paris, ca. 1325
MS M.323 II, fol. 44v

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Ecclesiastes the Preacher, wearing pointed hat, holding knife in left hand and quill in right hand, is seated cross-legged on chair, before foliate lectern on which is book. He looks toward angel, nimbed, extending right hand, holding book in left hand, emerging from cloud-edged arc of Heaven, above two trees. Background half burnished gold and half of diapered.
Frame of pink and blue decorated with gold and geometric ornament. Geometric and foliate ornament on extenders of initial L.