Maciejowski Bible
S.C. Cockerell, Old Testament Miniatures, Phaidon Press Ltd - London
| number | title | keywords | Folio 3 Recto - top | The tower of Babel | mason, working men's dress | Folio 3 Recto - bottom | The capture of Lot, Abraham's nephew | chainmail, tent | Folio 3 Verso - top | The rescue of Lot | tent, chainmail, weapons | Folio 4 Recto - bottom | Esau's offering of meat (detail) | archer, dog | Folio 08 Verso - bottom | The passover and the slaying of the firstborn (detail) | cloak | Folio 9 Recto - bottom | The children of Israel sing praises for their deliverance The bitter water of Marah |
tent, music | Folio 10 Recto - top detail |
The Israelites are repulsed from Hai | horse, weapon, helmet, shield, chainmail, gambeson | Folio 10 Verso - top | The city of Hai is captured and its King is hanged | horse, weapon, helmet, shield, chainmail, gambeson | Folio 10 Verso - bottom | The Gibeonites make peace by craft | tent, helmet, poor men's dress | Folio 11 Recto - top detail |
Joshua rescues Gibeon from the five kings | horse, weapon, helmet, shield, chainmail | Folio 12 Recto - bottom | Barak attacks Sisera (detail) | horse & wagon | Folio 12 Verso - bottom | The calling of Gideon and the kindling of his sacrifice (detail) | underwear, coif | Folio 14 Verso - bottom | Samson slays the Philistines with the jawbone of an ass | waepon, helmet | Folio 15 Recto - bottom | Delilah shears his locks from Samson | scissors | Folio 16 Recto - top detail |
A Levite and his wife are generously entertained The Levite is constrained to yield his wife to the wantons of Gibeah |
table, dishes & bowls, knife, weapon, tunic | Folio 16 Verso - top | The Levite takes his dead wife home The Levite hews the corpse in pieces |
table | Folio 17 Recto - top | The Benjamites win them wives from the daughters of Shiloh | music, mi-parti, ladies dress | Folio 18 Recto - bottom | The sleeping Boaz is compromised by Ruth while his corn is being threshed (detail) | underwear, coif, straw hat | Folio 20 Recto - bottom | The priests's servant taking an offering for his master (detail) | cauldron, fork | Folio 20 Verso - top | God calls Samual and reveals the coming destruction of Eli and his house | bed, curtain, sleeping dress | Folio 21 Verso - top | The Ark comes to Beth-Shemesh | cows & wagon, straw hat, coif | Folio 23 Recto - top | Saul summons Israel to fight the Ammonites | cattle, table | Folio 23 Verso - top | Saul destroys Nahash and the Ammonites | trebuchet, horse, weapon, helmet, archer | Folio 25 Recto - bottom | Agag is brought to Samuel | chainmail, underwear, cloak | Folio 25 Verso - top | The elders of Bethlehem would know Samuel's errand (detail) | tunic, gloves | Folio 25 Verso - bottom | David playing a pipe | music, sheep | Folio 29 Recto - top | David is met by the women of Israel after slaying Goliath | music, mi-parti, ladies dress | Folio 33 Recto - bottom | David shears off a piece of Saul's mantle in the cave at Engedi | underwear, cloak | Folio 34 Recto - top | David takes the cup and spear from Saul sleaping in his tent and displays them to Saul from a hilltop | tent, chainmail | Folio 35 Verso - top detail |
They hang Saul's body from the wall of Beth-San The valiant men of Jabesh-Gilead remove the body |
underwear, helmet | Folio 38 Verso - top detail |
The assassins of Ishbosheth bring his head to David and are themselves slain | underwear, chair | Folio 41 Verso - bottom | David commits adultery with Bathseba | bed, curtain, candle, sex | Folio 42 Recto - top | Uriah will not go to his house but abides at David's door | tent, table, dishes, house | Folio 42 Verso - bottom | A son is born to David and Bathseba | bed, curtain, cradle |
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