About this artwork
Altogether six miniatures in this small volume chronicle the story of Noah as an exemplar of virtue and trust: on the left, Noah helps his family escape the flood; on the right, a dove with an olive leaf signifies their deliverance. Such full-page miniatures that served as the primary means of relaying the story, without text, also served as reminders of proper and improper behavior. They probably once prefaced a psalter, or book of Psalms, which both lay and religious communities recited on a daily basis.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Prints and Drawings
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Title
- Cycle of Old and New Testament Images, Possibly Prefatory Cycle for a Psalter
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Place
- Northern France (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- 1245–1255
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Medium
- Manuscript with 58 full-page miniatures on parchment, with gothica textualis inscriptions in red (probably post-production addition) and black in French and Latin (only on ff. 9v-10r), ruled in graphite, with 2 (modern) fly leaves upper and lower cover, and with trimmed edges and modern cardboard binding
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Dimensions
- Image, average: 12 × 10 cm (4 3/4 × 3 15/16 in.); Sheet: 17 × 12 cm (6 3/4 × 4 3/4 in.)
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Credit Line
- Anonymous gift
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Reference Number
- 1915.533
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IIIF Manifest
- https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/71515/manifest.json
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