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Biblical cycles / Manuscripts / Bibles with an image for each Book / London, British Library, Burney MS 3 (Bible of Robert de Bello)
Old Testament / Genesis / Historiated initials / Creation (several scenes) and other scenes from Genesis
Old Testament / Genesis / Creation / Several scenes from the Creation in one image
Old Testament / Genesis / Creation / First Day: Creation of light
Old Testament / Genesis / Creation / Second Day: Creation of the Firmament
Old Testament / Genesis / Creation / Third Day: Creation of the dry land / Creation of plants
Old Testament / Genesis / Creation / Fourth Day: Creation of sun, moon and stars
Old Testament / Genesis / Creation / Fifth Day: Creation of Fishes and Fowls
Old Testament / Genesis / Creation / Sixth Day: Creation of beasts / Creation of beasts
Old Testament / Genesis / Creation / Seventh Day: Rest
Old Testament / Genesis / Adam and Eve / Creation of Eve
Old Testament / Genesis / Adam and Eve / Before the fall / God commanding Adam not to eat from the tree (Gen. 2:16-17)
Old Testament / Genesis / The Fall and Expulsion / The Serpent seduces Adam and Eve (Gen. 3:1-6) / Serpent with serpent head
Old Testament / Genesis / The Fall and Expulsion / God confronting Adam and Eve (Gen. 3:8-20)
Old Testament / Genesis / The Fall and Expulsion / Expulsion from Eden / With an angel but no gate
Old Testament / Genesis / Adam and Eve after the Fall
Old Testament / Genesis / Noah / The Flood (Gen. 6:1-9:17) / Noah sends forth the dove for the first time (Gen. 8: 8-9)
Old Testament / Genesis / The Tower of Babel / Building of the Tower of Babel (Gen. 11:1-4)
Old Testament / Genesis / Abraham and Isaac / The sacrifice of Isaac / Isaac carries the wood to Moriah
Old Testament / Genesis / Abraham and Isaac / The sacrifice of Isaac / The angel stays Abraham's sword and points to the ram
Trinity / With Father and Son seated and the Spirit as a Dove

Further details

In the shaft of the 'I' from top to bottom the days of Creation (with Creation of Eve on the Sixth Day and the Trinity on the Seventh Day), at the right (upper row) God's charge to Adam, Fall, God accusing Adam, Expulsion, Adam and Eve working; (bottom row) Ark, Tower of Babel, Sacrifice of Isaac

Artist or creator

Canterbury (?)

Date

1240 - 1253

Location

London, British Library, Burney 3

Book, text or document (source of image)

unknown author. Bible. Folio: 5v.

Notes on photograph

Bibliographic Citation

Alexandre, comte de Laborde, La Bible Moralisée Illustrée, vol. 4, Paris 1913, plate 790

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