Iconography

MAGIC AND SCIENCE

Flora and Fauna / Animals / Rhinoceros
Flora and Fauna / Birds / Hawk
Flora and Fauna / Birds / Heron
Flora and Fauna / Birds / Ostrich / Miscellaneous
Flora and Fauna / Fabulous animals / Unicorn / Miscellaneous

RELIGIOUS ICONOGRAPHY

Biblical cycles / Manuscripts / Bible moralisée / Oxford-Paris-London copy / Job (Part 1 - Oxford)
Old Testament / Job / God's speech to Job (Job 38-41) / God asks Job who feeds the raven (Job 38:41)
Old Testament / Job / God's speech to Job (Job 38-41) / God asks Job if he knows how the hinds fawn (Job 39:1-4)
Old Testament / Job / God's speech to Job (Job 38-41) / God asks Job if he can bind the rhinoceros to the plough (Job 39:10)
Old Testament / Job / God's speech to Job (Job 38-41) / God mentions the ostrich, who has wings like a heron or hawk, and leaves her eggs (Job 39:13-17)
Life of Christ / Infancy / Nativity / Virgin lying in

Further details

1. God asks Job who feeds the raven; 2. how the hinds fawn; 3. if he can bind a rhinoceros to a plough (linked with ox and ass in the Nativity); 4. God speaks about the foolish ostrich that has wings like the heron or the hawk and relinquishes her eggs

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: 223v.

Notes on photograph

Bibliographic Citation

Alexandre, comte de Laborde, La Bible Moralisée Illustrée, vol. 2, Paris 1912, plate 223

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