Illuminated Page from Thirteenth-Century German Manuscript of Rashi Commentary on Daniel

 

Illuminated Page from Thirteenth-Century German Manuscript of Rashi Commentary on Daniel

Nebuchadnezzar commands the worship of a golden image while the three Hebrew youths are cast into a fiery furnace and protected by the angel Gabriel. This miniature appears at the beginning of Daniel in a Hebrew biblical commentary manuscript completed in the Würzburg region in 1232–33.

Biblical Commentary, vol. II, fol. 209r, Würzburg region, 1232–33. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich, Cod. hebr. 5(2).

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