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RELIGIOUS ICONOGRAPHY

Biblical cycles / Manuscripts / Bible moralisée / Oxford-Paris-London copy / Cantica canticorum
Old Testament / Canticles (A.V. Song of Songs) / Cant. 1:15: Sponsa: Ecce tu pulcher es, dilecte me, et decorus. Lectulus noster floridus (Bride: Behold thou art fair, my beloved, and comely. Our bed is flourishing) / First part of verse: Ecce tu pulcher es, dilecte mi, et decorus (Behold thou art fair, my beloved, and comely)
Old Testament / Canticles (A.V. Song of Songs) / Cant. 1:15: Sponsa: Ecce tu pulcher es, dilecte me, et decorus. Lectulus noster floridus (Bride: Behold thou art fair, my beloved, and comely. Our bed is flourishing) / Second part of verse: Lectulus noster floridus (Our bed is flourishing)
Old Testament / Canticles (A.V. Song of Songs) / Cant. 2:1: Sponsa: Ego flos campi et lilium convallium (I am the flower of the field and the lily of the valleys)
Old Testament / Canticles (A.V. Song of Songs) / Cant. 2:2: Sponsus: Sicut lilium inter spinas, sic amica mea inter filias (Bridegroom: As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters)
Life of Christ / Ministry / Teaching / 'Tollat suam crucem et sequatur me' (take up his cross and follow me, Mt. 16:24, Mc. 8:34, Lc. 9:23)
Virgin Mary / Virgin and Child / Virgin pointing to Child
Saints / Apostles / Apostles as a group
The Church / Liturgy / Roman Rite / Mass / Canon / Elevation of the Host
Miscellaneous / Religious Orders / General / Monastic life

Further details

1. Ecce tu pulcher es (moralisation: following Christ); 2. Lectulus noster floridus (moralisation: monastery); 3. Ego flos campi (moralisation: humility of Christ and Apostles); 4. Sicut lilium inter spinas

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: 71v.

Notes on photograph

Bibliographic Citation

Alexandre, comte de Laborde, La Bible Moralisée Illustrée, vol. 2, Paris 1912, plate 295

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