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This page from Walters manuscript W.106 depicts a scene from the story of Sodom and Gomorrah. Having saved Lot and his family from the Sodomites, the angels instructed him to flee the city with his wife and two daughters, because the angels were about to destroy it. Lot lingered, so they took his hand, and those of his family, and placed them outside the city, and instructed them to flee to the small city of Zoar, without looking back. However, Lot's wife disobeyed, and upon looking back she was turned into a pillar of salt.
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Document identity
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5435
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Lot and his Family Flee Sodom (Genesis 19:15-26)
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Source metadata
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title
Lot and his Family Flee Sodom (Genesis 19:15-26)
description
This page from Walters manuscript W.106 depicts a scene from the story of Sodom and Gomorrah. Having saved Lot and his family from the Sodomites, the angels instructed him to flee the city with his wife and two daughters, because the angels were about to destroy it. Lot lingered, so they took his hand, and those of his family, and placed them outside the city, and instructed them to flee to the small city of Zoar, without looking back. However, Lot's wife disobeyed, and upon looking back she was turned into a pillar of salt.
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
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13.2
height
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] The inscription below the image reads: God commanded Lot and his wife and his daughters to go out of Sodom without looking [back]. Lot's wife looked [back]. God changed her into a salty rock.; [Transliteration] Above: Sodom. foudre. lot e sa du fiiles. sa fe[m]me.; [Transliteration] Below: deu comaunda lot e sa fe[m]m e sas fiiles aler hors de sodom
sens regarder. la feme lot regarda. deu la mua en une pere saline.
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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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