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Biblical cycles / Manuscripts / Bible moralisée / Oxford-Paris-London copy / Cantica canticorum
Old Testament / Canticles (A.V. Song of Songs) / Cant. 1:4: Sponsa: Nigra sum sed formosa, filiae Jerusalem, sicut tabernacula Cedar, sicut pelles Salomon (Bride: I am black but beautiful, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Cedar ...)
Old Testament / Canticles (A.V. Song of Songs) / Cant. 1:5: Sponsa: Nolite me considerare quod fusca sim ... vineam meam non custodivi (Bride: Do not consider me that I am brown ... my vineyard I have not kept) / First part of verse: Nolite me considerare quoniam fusca sim, quia decoloravit me sol (Do not consider me that I am brown, because the sun hath altered my colour)
Old Testament / Canticles (A.V. Song of Songs) / Cant. 1:5: Sponsa: Nolite me considerare quod fusca sim ... vineam meam non custodivi (Bride: Do not consider me that I am brown ... my vineyard I have not kept) / Second part of verse: Filii matris meae pugnaverunt contra me (The sons of my mother have fought against me)
Old Testament / Canticles (A.V. Song of Songs) / Cant. 1:5: Sponsa: Nolite me considerare quod fusca sim ... vineam meam non custodivi (Bride: Do not consider me that I am brown ... my vineyard I have not kept) / Third part of verse: Posuerunt me custodem in vineis, vineam meam non custodivi (They have made me the keeper in the vineyards, my vineyard I have not kept)
Saints / Saints A - Z / Stephen / Life / Stoning of St Stephen

Further details

1. Nigra sum sed formosa; 2. Nolite considerare (the moralisation compares the sunburns with temptations God sends His saints, the image shows the martyrdom of St Stephen); 3. Filii matris meae pugnaverunt (moralisation as Synagogue persecuting Christ); 4. Posuerunt me custodem

Artist or creator

Paris

Date

1233 (circa)

Location

Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, lat. 11560

Book, text or document (source of image)

unknown author. Bible moralisée. Folio: 68r.

Notes on photograph

Bibliographic Citation

Alexandre, comte de Laborde, La Bible Moralisée Illustrée, vol. 2, Paris 1912, plate 292

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