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| 9th century. | Two white (possibly) cone tents tied to an exterior wooden frames, apex consist of two balls, one on top of the other (red centre, white middle and blue exterior colouring), each panel is scalloped to above head height with a blue line decorating the edge. | “Plate 47, Ashburnham Pentateuch, Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale,
cod. n. acq lat. 2334, fol 76r.
‘Moses recieving Law’ “...The desert tents with (Moses) and Joshua at the left and Aaron and his sons at the right are clearly pushed aside to give way to an elaborate representation of the tabernacle in the form of a temple...” |
Weitzmann, K., Late Antique and Early Christian Book Illumination, London, 1977, p. 123. |
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