Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Bible
England, perhaps Oxford, ca. 1265
MS G.42 fol. 246v

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Ezekiel: communicating with God -- Ezekiel, as child, hands raised, is touched on mouth by right index finger of Christ-Logos, cross-nimbed, grasping fold of mantle with left hand.
Scene on blue patterned background within initial E; at bottom of page, man, bald, with only one foot, wearing loin cloth, crawls using hand crutches.
Beginning of Ezekiel.