Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Weltchronik
Germany, Regensburg, ca. 1360
MS M.769 fol. 128r

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Joshua: crossing Jordan -- Men, wearing helmets, two holding spears, one with basket on back containing child; two women one veiled with right hand holding right hand of child, and the other wearing wimpled headdress next to child carrying staff all stand next to or in river. They look right toward four men, wearing hats, carrying Ark of Covenant on their shoulders; stones are in water between them.