Item Info
Item No: mcaw090030
Additional Title: Psalter-Hours
Script:
Gothic bookhand
Language: Latin
Folio Number: ff. 3v-4r
Source: Rare Book Department
Notes: Opening with the Presentation in the Temple, the Massacre of the Innocents, the Flight into Egypt, and the Temptation of Christ
Notes: The scenes in this opening are part of a cycle of twelve full-page miniatures depicting twenty-four scenes from the life of Christ. The cycle functions as a pictorial preface to the text of the Psalms.
Sirsi Catalog Key: 1466041
Country: Country:France
City/Town/Township:Amiens ?
Cardinal Point:northeastern
Creation Year (Single Year or Range Begin): 1275
Image Dimensions Width: 185 mm
ShelfMark: Widener 9
Subjects
- Animals
- Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint
- Jesus Christ - Childhood
- Devil
- Donkeys (Asses)
- Herod I, King of Judea, 73-4 B.C.
- Massacre of the Holy Innocents
- Joseph, Saint
- Jesus Christ - Temptation
- Jesus Christ - Presentation
- Simeon (Biblical figure)
- Jesus Christ - Flight into Egypt
- Anna (Biblical prophetess)
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