Iconography
RELIGIOUS ICONOGRAPHY
Old Testament / Exodus / The Israelites in the Desert / Jethro counsels Moses to appoint judges (Exod. 18:13-23)
Old Testament / 3 Kings (A.V. I Kings) / The Queen of Saba (A.V. Sheba) (3 Kings 10) / The Queen of Saba talks to Solomon (3 Kings 10:2-3 and 6-9) / Queen enthroned beside Solomon
Old Testament / Proverbs / Paternal admonition against doing evil (Prov. 1:1-19) / Prov. 1:5: Audiens sapiens sapientior erit, et intelligens gubernacula possidebit (A wise man shall hear and shall be wiser: and he that understandeth, shall possess governments)
Old Testament / Proverbs / Paternal admonition against doing evil (Prov. 1:1-19) / Prov. 1:7: Timor Domini principium sapientiae; sapientiam atque doctrinam stulti despiciunt (The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. Fools despise wisdom and instruction)
Further details
1. Introduction: Solomon teaching a boy; 2. Audiens sapientior erit (hence the Queen of Saba visited Salomon, and Moses listened to Jethro); 3. Timor Domini initium sapientiae (the fools rejecting wisdoms likened to the Doctors of the Law); 4. Audi filie disciplinam patris tui
Artist or creator
Date
1233 (circa)
Location
Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, lat. 11560
Book, text or document (source of image)
unknown author. Bible moralisée. Folio: 40r.
Notes on photograph
Bibliographic Citation
Alexandre, comte de Laborde, La Bible Moralisée Illustrée, vol. 2, Paris 1912, plate 264
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