Tree Of Life Allegory
by Library Of Congress
Title
Tree Of Life Allegory
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Library Of Congress
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
Tree of life allegory. 15th-century illustrated manuscript on medical allegories, part of a set of documents referred to as spiritual encyclopaedias of the Middle Ages. This manuscript page shows a religious figure (bottom), an angel (top), a grape vine (with bird, centre), plus text and labels. The Gothic script (in Latin and German) is on vellum in black and red ink. This manuscript is part of a collection of pages that were published in southern Germany in around 1410.
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