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Biblical cycles / Manuscripts / Bible moralisée / Oxford-Paris-London copy / Job (Part 1 - Oxford)
Old Testament / Job / Job's final speech to his friends (Job 27-31) / Job speaks of the stone of darkness and the river separating the pilgrims (Job 28:3-4)
Old Testament / Job / Job's final speech to his friends (Job 27-31) / Job reminisces how he washed his feet with butter and chairs were prepared for him (Job 29:6-7)
Old Testament / Job / Job's final speech to his friends (Job 27-31) / Job reminisces how he was enthroned like a king and comforted the others (Job 29:25)
Old Testament / Job / Job's final speech to his friends (Job 27-31) / Job laments about being scorned by the young men (Job 30:1)

Further details

1. Job speaks about the stone of darkness and the river separating the pilgrims from the pathless (the Vulgate text is difficult); 2. Job reminisces how he washed his feet with butter and had chairs put out in the street and ; 3. How he sat as a king and comforted the others; 4. The young scorn him

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: 221v.

Notes on photograph

Bibliographic Citation

Alexandre, comte de Laborde, La Bible Moralisée Illustrée, vol. 2, Paris 1912, plate 221

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