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The Trees of Jesse of Issoudun (Berry, France). Sources and Interpretation Michel Maupoix & Léon Lock

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The Trees of Jesse of Issoudun (Berry, France).

Sources and Interpretation

Michel Maupoix & Léon Lock

Bible des Capucins, c.1180,

BnF, latin 16746, f. 7 v°-8

Ivory relief with the Tree of Jesse, Bamberg (?) c.1200, Musée du Louvre,

OA10428

Saint-Gervais-et-Saint-Protais, Gisors (Eure)

Saint-Riquier (Somme)

The Trees of Jesse of Issoudun (Berry, France).

Sources and Interpretation

Prophet Zephaniah

(or Sophonias)? His gesture

would represent

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