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Medieval People

CHAPTER VII
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Royal, 15 D.I, f.

18, in the British Museum which is part of a _petite bible historiale_, or biblical history, by Guyart des Moulins, expanded by the addition of certain books of the Bible, in French.

It was made at Bruges by the order of Edward IV, King of England by one J.
du Ries and finished in 1470, so that it is about eighty years later than the Menagier's book.

The illustration represents a scene from the story of Tobias; Tobit, sick and blind, is lying in bed, and his wife Anna is cooking by the fire, with the help of a book and a serving maid.
The right-hand half of the picture, which is not reproduced here, shows the outside of the house, with Tobias bringing in the angel Raphael.

The illuminated border of the page from which this scene is taken contains the arms of Edward IV, with the garter and crown.
PLATE VII.


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