Iconography
MAGIC AND SCIENCE
RELIGIOUS ICONOGRAPHY
Old Testament / Ecclesiastes / Eccl. 1:2-11: Everything is vanity / Eccl. 1:7: Omnia flumina intrant in mare ... ad locum unde exeunt flumina revertuntur ut iterum fluant (All the rivers run into the sea ... they return, to flow again)
Old Testament / Ecclesiastes / Eccl. 1:2-11: Everything is vanity / Eccl. 1:8: Cunctae res difficiles; non potest eas homo explicare sermone. Non saturatur oculus visu, nec auris auditu impletur (All things are hard, man cannot explain them by word)
Old Testament / Ecclesiastes / Eccl. 1:2-11: Everything is vanity / Eccl. 1:15: Perversi difficile corriguntur, et stultorum infinitus est numerus (The perverse are hard to be corrected, and the number of fools is infinite)
Old Testament / Ecclesiastes / Eccl. 6: On those who cannot enjoy life / Eccl. 6:2: Vir cui dedit Deus divitias ... nec tribuit ei potestatem Deus ut comedat ex eo (A man to whom God hath given riches ... yet God doth not give him power to eat thereof)
SECULAR ICONOGRAPHY
Further details
1. Omnia flumina intrant in mare (the Moralisation shows man created from earth and returning to earth after death); 2. Cunctae res difficiles; 3. Perversi difficile corriguntur; 4. Vir cui dedit deus divitias
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: 63v.
Notes on photograph
Bibliographic Citation
Alexandre, comte de Laborde, La Bible Moralisée Illustrée, vol. 2, Paris 1912, plate 287
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