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Biblical cycles / Manuscripts / Bible moralisée / Oxford-Paris-London copy / Numeri
Old Testament / Numbers / Counting of the Israelites (Num. 1-2) / List of the Captains of the Tribes (Num. 1:5-16) / Ephraim and Manasseh, the sons of Joseph (Num. 1:10)
Old Testament / Numbers / Counting of the Israelites (Num. 1-2) / List of the Captains of the Tribes (Num. 1:5-16) / Benjamin (Num. 1:11)

Further details

1. Joseph as ancestor of Ephraim and Manasseh (signifying Christ as cornerstone between Christians and Jews); 2. The Tribe of Ephraim (signifying Christ's humiliation); 3. The Tribe of Manasseh (Christ's rejection); 4. The Tribe of Benjamin (signifying fighters)

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: 68r.

Notes on photograph

Bibliographic Citation

Alexandre, comte de Laborde, La Bible Moralisée Illustrée, vol. 1, Paris 1911, plate 68

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