Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Bible
France, possibly Corbie, 1229
MS M.163 fol. 3v

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1) Creation Scene: 1st Day -- God, right hand raised in blessing, stands beside disk divided into dark half (black) and light half (white).
2) Creation Scene: 2nd Day -- God, right hand raised in blessing, stands beside white disk divided by horizontal line.
3) Creation Scene: 3rd Day -- God, right hand raised in blessing, stands beside tree.
4) Creation Scene: 4th Day -- God, right hand raised in blessing, stands beside disk with sun and moon.
5) Creation Scene: 5th Day -- God, right hand raised in blessing, stands beside body of water.
6) Creation Scene: 6th Day -- God, right hand raised in blessing, stands beside Eve, nude, emerging from side of Adam, nude, sleeping.
7) Creation Scene: God resting -- God sits on bench, head resting against left hand.
8) Christ: Crucifixion -- Christ, head bowed, in long loin cloth, is affixed to cross with four nails. He is flanked by Virgin Mary and Evangelist John. Sun and moon in sky.
Scenes against gold backgrounds in medallions, all within decorated initial I with bird and hybrid dragon, at start of Genesis.