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Biblical cycles / Manuscripts / Bible moralisée / Oxford-Paris-London copy / Cantica canticorum
Old Testament / Canticles (A.V. Song of Songs) / Cant. 2:7: Sponsus: Adiuro vos ... per capreas cervosque camporum, ne suscitetis ... dilectam, quoadusque ipsa velit (Bridegroom: I adjure you ... that you do not stir up ... my beloved)
Old Testament / Canticles (A.V. Song of Songs) / Cant. 2:8: Sponsa: Vox dilecti mei, ecce iste venit, saliens in montibus, transiliens colles (Bride: The voice of my beloved, behold he cometh leaping upon the mountains, skipping over the hills)
Old Testament / Canticles (A.V. Song of Songs) / Cant. 2:9: Sponsa: Similis est dilectus meus capreae, hinnuloque cervorum ... prospiciens per cancellos (Bride: My beloved is like a roe, or a young hart ... looking through the lattices) / First part of verse: Similis est dilectus meus capreae hinnuloque cervorum (My beloved is like a roe or a young hart)
Old Testament / Canticles (A.V. Song of Songs) / Cant. 2:9: Sponsa: Similis est dilectus meus capreae, hinnuloque cervorum ... prospiciens per cancellos (Bride: My beloved is like a roe, or a young hart ... looking through the lattices) / Second part of verse: En ipse stat post parietem nostrum, respiciens per fenestras, prospiciens per cancellos (Behold he standeth behind our wall, looking through the windows ...)
Life of Christ / Infancy / Annunciation / Adaptations
Life of Christ / Infancy / Nativity / Virgin lying in
Life of Christ / Passion / Crucifixion / Single cross / With the Faithful
Life of Christ / After the Passion / Ascension / Whole Christ visible / Christ and angels only
Miscellaneous / Praying / Person in prayer / before altar
Miscellaneous / Praying / Disturbances in prayer

Further details

1. Adiuro vos filiae Jerusalem (moralisation: distraction from contemplation); 2. Vox dilecti mei: ecce iste venit saliens (moralisation: Christ 'jumping' into the Virgin's womb, the crib, the cross, and back into heaven); 3. Similis est dilectus meus; 4. En ipse stat

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: 73v.

Notes on photograph

Bibliographic Citation

Alexandre, comte de Laborde, La Bible Moralisée Illustrée, vol. 2, Paris 1912, plate 297

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