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Biblical cycles / Manuscripts / Bible moralisée / Oxford-Paris-London copy / Regum IV
Old Testament / 4 Kings (A.V. II Kings) / Assumption of Elias and first miracles of Eliseus (4 Kings 2) / The children who had mocked Eliseus are killed by bears (4 Kings 2:24)
Old Testament / 4 Kings (A.V. II Kings) / Miracles of Eliseus (4 Kings 4-6:7) / Multiplication of oil (4 Kings 4:1-7) / The woman tells Eliseus that her creditors are taking away her sons (4 Kings 4:1)
Old Testament / 4 Kings (A.V. II Kings) / Miracles of Eliseus (4 Kings 4-6:7) / Multiplication of oil (4 Kings 4:1-7) / The woman pours oil, which does not run out, into many vessels (4 Kings 4:4-5)
Old Testament / 4 Kings (A.V. II Kings) / Miracles of Eliseus (4 Kings 4-6:7) / Multiplication of oil (4 Kings 4:1-7) / The woman is able to pay her creditors with the proceedings from the oil (4 Kings 4:7)

Further details

1. Two bears kill the boys; 2. The woman complaints that the creditors are taking her children away because she cannot pay her debt; 3. She pours oil, which does not run out, into many vessels; 4. She is able to pay her creditors and have her children back

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: 176r.

Notes on photograph

Bibliographic Citation

Alexandre, comte de Laborde, La Bible Moralisée Illustrée, vol. 1, Paris 1911, plate 176

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