Description: The vignette portrays two coffins with crosses on the palls and two candles.
vignette
Flanders or Upper Rhineland
This image belongs to a series of excerpts from Ecclesiastes and Hebrews.
Rothschild Canticles (f. 145r): Eccles. 2.16. Two coffins with crosses on the palls and two candlesRothschild Canticles (f. 146r): Eccles. 4:1. Man and woman mourning a corpseRothschild Canticles (f. 148r): Eccles. 6.1. Man taking food from table of another; Eccles. 8.1. Teacher seated at desk reading to pupilRothschild Canticles (f. 148v): Heb. 11.1. Two seated prophets pointing to clouds; Heb. 12.6. Man pulling at hood of seated monkRothschild Canticles (f. 149r): Heb. 12.11. Flagellant kneeling at altar; Heb. 12.13. Man with crutch addressed by Christ
Collection of William Alexander Douglas, Duke of Hamilton and Brandon.
Reverend Walter Sneyd, gift from Douglas in 1856.
Sotheby, sold 16 December 1903, no.513 Bernard Quaritch, London.
Collection of Edmond de Rothschild, MS 98, sold 24 June 1968 no.1 in Paris, Palais Galliéra.
Acquired from H.P. Kraus in 1968 as the gift of Edwin J. Beinecke.
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University
