Iconography
MAGIC AND SCIENCE
Flora and Fauna / Fabulous animals / Dragon / Dragons interacting with humans or angels but not fighting
RELIGIOUS ICONOGRAPHY
Old Testament / Job / Job's final speech to his friends (Job 27-31) / Job has become akin to dragons and ostriches, his organ has become weeping (Job 30:29-31)
Old Testament / Job / Job's final speech to his friends (Job 27-31) / Job reminisces about his hospitality (Job 31:32)
Old Testament / Job / Eliu's speech (Job 32-37) / Eliu compares his eagerness to talk to an exploding barrel of new wine (Job 32:19)
Old Testament / Job / Eliu's speech (Job 32-37) / Eliu speaks about winter and animals hibernating (Job 37:8)
SOCIAL LIFE
Further details
1. Job likens himself to dragons and ostriches; 2. Job reminisces about his great hospitality; 3. Eliu compares his eagerness to talk to a barrel that is close to explosion; 4. Eliu speaks about God sending winter and animals going into hibernation
Artist or creator
Date
1233 (circa)
Location
Oxford, Bodleian Library, Bodley 270b
Book, text or document (source of image)
unknown author. Bible moralisée. Folio: 222r.
Notes on photograph
Bibliographic Citation
Alexandre, comte de Laborde, La Bible Moralisée Illustrée, vol. 2, Paris 1912, plate 222
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