Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Bible historiale
France, Paris, ca. 1325
MS M.322 I, fol. 41v

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Jacob: preparing to meet Esau (?) -- Group of three men and two women, veiled, all gesturing, stand between two trees before Jacob, wearing pointed hat, raising right hand. Burnished gold background.
Frame of pink and blue decorated with geometric ornament. Geometric and foliate ornament on extenders of initial D.
Illustration of Genesis 32.