Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Bible historiale
France, Paris, ca. 1325
MS M.322 I, fol. 222r

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Tobias: meeting Raphael (?) -- Tobias, wearing pointed hat, holding open book with both hands, kneels looking up toward angel, nimbed, extending right hand, and holding book in left hand, emerging from cloud-edged arc of Heaven. Diapered background; two trees.
Frame of blue decorated with gold and geometric ornament. Geometric and foliate ornament on extenders of initial T.
Illustration of Tobias 5:5-7.