Iconography

RELIGIOUS ICONOGRAPHY

Biblical cycles / Manuscripts / Bible moralisée / Oxford-Paris-London copy / Cantica canticorum
Old Testament / Canticles (A.V. Song of Songs) / Cant. 6:10: Sponsa: Descendi in hortum nucum, ut viderem poma convallium, et inspicerem si floruisset vinea ... mala punica (Bride: I went down into the garden of nuts, to see the fruits ...)
Old Testament / Canticles (A.V. Song of Songs) / Cant. 6:11: Sponsa: Nescivi: anima mea conturbavit me, propter quadrigas Aminadab (I knew not, my soul troubled me for the chariots of Aminadab)
Old Testament / Canticles (A.V. Song of Songs) / Cant. 6:12: Chorus: Revertere, revertere, Sulamitis, revertere, revertere ut intueamur te (Choir: Return, return, O Sulamitess; return, return that we may behold thee)
Life of Christ / Infancy / Massacre of the Innocents / The massacre / Without flight into Egypt
Virgin Mary / Virgin and Child / Child blessing
The Church / Ecclesiastical Allegory / Church and Synagogue / Synagogue astonished about emergence of Church
The Church / Ecclesiastical Allegory / Church and Synagogue / Conversion of the Jews

Further details

1. Quae est ista quae progreditur (moralisation: Synagogue astonished about Church); 2. Descendi in hortum nucum (moralisation: Incarnation); 3. Anima mea conturbavit me; 4. Revertere, revertere, Sulamitis (moralisation: Conversion of the Jews)

Artist or creator

Paris

Date

1233 (circa)

Location

Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, lat. 11560

Book, text or document (source of image)

unknown author. Bible moralisée. Folio: 86r.

Notes on photograph

Bibliographic Citation

Alexandre, comte de Laborde, La Bible Moralisée Illustrée, vol. 2, Paris 1912, plate 310

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