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Source Description
This page from Walters manuscript W.106 depicts a scene from the story of Noah's ark. Here, the ark is nowhere to be found. The fountains of the great deep have broken up, and the windows of heaven have been opened. Five great plumes of water tumble from a red heaven into a broiling ocean. It has already rained for many of the forty days, and the beasts, birds, and people of the earth ate laid to rest in ordered strata, like sediment, on the ocean floor. The people are the last to drown. The great flood will prevail upon the earth for a hundred and fifty days.
Scholar Source Context
Document identity
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22204
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The Flood of Noah (Genesis 7:11-24)
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Source metadata
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22204
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title
The Flood of Noah (Genesis 7:11-24)
description
This page from Walters manuscript W.106 depicts a scene from the story of Noah's ark. Here, the ark is nowhere to be found. The fountains of the great deep have broken up, and the windows of heaven have been opened. Five great plumes of water tumble from a red heaven into a broiling ocean. It has already rained for many of the forty days, and the beasts, birds, and people of the earth ate laid to rest in ordered strata, like sediment, on the ocean floor. The people are the last to drown. The great flood will prevail upon the earth for a hundred and fifty days.
provenance
Léon Gruel, Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, June 6, 1903, by purchase [see The Diaries of George Lucas]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
ca. 1250 (Medieval)
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CC0
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en
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illuminated manuscripts
folios (leaves)
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1
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1
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import
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cm
width
13.2
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9.5
dimensionsRaw
H: 5 3/16 x W: 3 3/4 in. (13.2 x 9.5 cm)
Source extras
style
Gothic
inscriptions
[Translation] Below the image: Here all the people of the world and the beasts and the birds drown.; [Transliteration] Above the image: le deluvie noe; [Transliteration] Below the image: ici neerent tute la gent del munde e bestes e volatilie.
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ink and pigment on parchment
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3408
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none
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1
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0
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photo
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