Iconography

RELIGIOUS ICONOGRAPHY

Biblical cycles / Manuscripts / Bible moralisée / Oxford-Paris-London copy / Genesis
Old Testament / Genesis / Jacob / Childhood of Jacob and Esau (Gen. 25) / The characters of Jacob and Esau (Gen. 25:27-28)
Old Testament / Genesis / Jacob / Isaac's Blessing (Gen. 27) / Isaac blessing Jacob as firstborn (Gen. 27:18-29)
Old Testament / Genesis / Jacob / Isaac's Blessing (Gen. 27) / Esau appraoches Abraham and receives a minor blessing (Gen. 27:30-40)
Old Testament / Genesis / Jacob / Jacob's dream of the ladder (Gen. 28:11-22) / Jacob sees in his dream the angels ascending and descending the ladder (Gen. 28:12-15)
Saints / Saints A - Z / Thomas Becket / Martyrdom

Further details

1. Esau as hunter (compared to the murderers of St Thomas Becket) and Jacob staying with his mother; 2. Jacob blessing Jacob as firstborn; 3. Jacob giving Esau a minor blessing; 4. Jacob's dream of the ladder

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: 17v.

Notes on photograph

Bibliographic Citation

Alexandre, comte de Laborde, La Bible Moralisée Illustrée, vol. 1, Paris 1911, plate 17

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