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Biblical cycles / Manuscripts / Bible moralisée / Oxford-Paris-London copy / Regum IV
Old Testament / 4 Kings (A.V. II Kings) / Miracles of Eliseus (4 Kings 4-6:7) / The son of the Sunamite (4 Kings 4:8- 37) / Eliseus returns the resurrected boy to his parents who praise God (4 Kings 4:37)
Old Testament / 4 Kings (A.V. II Kings) / Miracles of Eliseus (4 Kings 4-6:7) / The bitter food (4 Kings 4:38-42) / A servant of Eliseus cooks an unknown root for the sons of the prophets (4 Kings 4:38-40)
Old Testament / 4 Kings (A.V. II Kings) / Miracles of Eliseus (4 Kings 4-6:7) / The bitter food (4 Kings 4:38-42) / The sons of the prophets cannot eat it for its bitterness (4 Kings 4:40)
Old Testament / 4 Kings (A.V. II Kings) / Miracles of Eliseus (4 Kings 4-6:7) / The bitter food (4 Kings 4:38-42) / Eliseus adds meal to it that takes away the bitterness (4 Kings 4:41)
Old Testament / 4 Kings (A.V. II Kings) / Miracles of Eliseus (4 Kings 4-6:7) / The multiplication of bread (4 Kings 4:43-44)

Further details

1. Eliseus restores the resurrected boy to his parents; 2. His servant cooks a soup out of an unknown root; 3. The sons of the prophets refuse to eat because it is so bitter, Eliseus removes the bitterness with meal; 4. Hundred people fed with 20 loaves

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: 179v.

Notes on photograph

Bibliographic Citation

Alexandre, comte de Laborde, La Bible Moralisée Illustrée, vol. 1, Paris 1911, plate 179

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