Iconography

RELIGIOUS ICONOGRAPHY

Biblical cycles / Manuscripts / Bible moralisée / Oxford-Paris-London copy / Cantica canticorum
Old Testament / Canticles (A.V. Song of Songs) / Cant. 1:11: Sponsa: Dum esset rex in accubito suo, nardus mea dedit odorem suum (Bride: While the king was at his repose, my spikenard sent forth the odour thereof)
Old Testament / Canticles (A.V. Song of Songs) / Cant. 1:12: Sponsa: Fasciculus myrrae dilectus meus mihi, inter ubera mea commorabitur (Bride: A bundle of myrrh is my beloved to me, he shall abide between my breasts)
Old Testament / Canticles (A.V. Song of Songs) / Sponsa: Botrus cypri dilectus meus mihi in vineis Engaddi (A cluster of cypress my love is to me, in the vineyards of Engaddi)
Old Testament / Canticles (A.V. Song of Songs) / Cant. 1:14: Sponsus: Ecce tu pulchra es, amica mea, ecce tu pulchra es, oculi tui columbarum (Bridegroom: Behold thou art fair, my beloved, behold thou art fair, thy eyes are as those of doves)
Life of Christ / Passion / Crucifixion / Single cross / With Personifications
Life of Christ / Passion / Dead Christ / Adored by Ecclesia
Life of Christ / Passion / Entombment / Christ's body being anointed
Life of Christ / After the Passion / Resurrection / Christ standing in the tomb
Saints / Apostles / Paul / Single figure / Full Figure - Standing
Saints / Apostles / Peter / Single figure / With cross (not upside-down)
Saints / Saints A - Z / Lawrence / Single Figure
Saints / Saints A - Z / Stephen / Single figure

SECULAR ICONOGRAPHY

Death / The soul / Soul leaving the body and received by angel

Further details

1. Cum esset rex (moralisation: good deeds of the saints); 2. Fasciculus myrrhae (moralisation: memory of Christ's Passion); 3. Botrus cypri (moralisation: joy of Resurrection after Passion); 4. Ecce tu pulchra es (eternal glory for those who love and suffer under the world)

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: 70r.

Notes on photograph

Bibliographic Citation

Alexandre, comte de Laborde, La Bible Moralisée Illustrée, vol. 2, Paris 1912, plate 294

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