Iconography
RELIGIOUS ICONOGRAPHY
Old Testament / 3 Kings (A.V. I Kings) / Elias, Jezabel and Eliseus (A.V. Elijah, Jezebel and Elisha)(3 Kings 19) / Eliseus kills his oxen and gives their flesh to the people (3 Kings 19:21)
SOCIAL LIFE
Justice and punishment / Law Books / Decretum Gratiani / Cycles / Cambridge, Sidney Sussex College, MS 101 (Bologna, late 12th century)
Further details
detail; the text criticizes the Biblical example of Eliseus as bad stewardship, not to be imitated by a bishop
Artist or creator
Date
12th century (late)
Location
Associated persons
Ian Jones (The Warburg Institute) (Photographer (analogue))
Book, text or document (source of image)
Folio: 53v.
Notes on photograph
Bibliographic Citation
Susan L'Engle and Robert Gibbs, Illuminating the Law. Legal Manuscripts in Cambridge Collections, London, Turnhout 2001, pp. 105-110, no. 1; Illuminated Manuscripts in Cambridge. A Catalogue of Western Book Illumination in the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Cambridge Colleges, vol. 2, 1, London, Turnhout, 2011, pp. 59-61, no. 23
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Acknowledgements
Photographed with kind permission of Master and Fellows of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge
Contact
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