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1300Medicine: examining urine
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1300The medieval Church
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1300Medieval Surgery
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1300Rural life: the lazy ploughman
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1301Friar playing music
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1308Dante's Divine Comedy
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1310Harvesting acorns
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1315Living and dead Princes
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1320Noah in the Holkham Bible
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1325Apothecary shop
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1325City walls
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1330Lord at supper
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1330Peasants work the land
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1335The Last Judgement
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1337Hundred Years War
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1348Demons fall into Hell
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1348Chronicle of the Black Death
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1350Genesis picture book
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1360Medieval encyclopedia
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1375Sir Gawain & the Green Knight
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1381Peasants' Revolt
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1385Scottish freedom
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1390English cookery manuscript
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Intro
This famous illustrated bible is full of pictures of everyday life in the 1300s. The illustrations were originally used by a preacher to help him explain the stories to his audience. Each picture is accompanied by brief explanatory text in Anglo-Norman French – this was the language used by most English noblemen at the time.
This image shows Noah releasing a raven and a dove, birds representing vice and virtue. The dove is shown again returning with an olive branch, a symbol of peace. In the water, we see the world submerged by the flood: there is a dead ox and two naked corpses, the raven picks out the eye of the dead horse, and the dove plucks an olive branch from an underwater mountain.
Shelfmark: Add. 47682
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