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RELIGIOUS ICONOGRAPHY

Biblical cycles / Manuscripts / Bible moralisée / Oxford-Paris-London copy / Genesis
Old Testament / Genesis / Abraham and Isaac / Abraham and Lot, Melchisedech / Battle of four kings against five kings (Gen. 14:9-11)
Old Testament / Genesis / Abraham and Isaac / Abraham and Lot, Melchisedech / Lot is taken prisoner (Gen. 14:12)
Old Testament / Genesis / Abraham and Isaac / Abraham and Lot, Melchisedech / Abraham liberates Lot (Gen. 14:14-16)
Old Testament / Genesis / Abraham and Isaac / Abraham and Hagar - up to Ismael's circumcision / Sarah complaining to Abraham about Hagar (Gen. 16:5-6)
Old Testament / Genesis / Abraham and Isaac / Abraham and Hagar - up to Ismael's circumcision / Hagar gives birth to Ismael (Gen. 16:15-16)

Further details

1. Battle of four kings with five, Lot being imprisoned; 2. Abraham liberates Lot; 3. Birth of Ismael; 4. Sarah complains to Abraham (in the Bible Sarah complains before Ismael's birth, here afterwards)

Artist or creator

Paris

Date

1233 (circa)

Location

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Bodley 270b

Book, text or document (source of image)

unknown author. Bible moralisée. Folio: 13v.

Notes on photograph

Bibliographic Citation

Alexandre, comte de Laborde, La Bible Moralisée Illustrée, vol. 1, Paris 1911, plate 13

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