Emperor Lothar I in a cloak decorated with precious stones
BL Add MS 37768; the 'Lothar Psalter'; c.840 CE-855 CE; Germany (Aachen) or Northern France (Tours); f.4r @BLMedieval bl.uk/manuscripts/Fu…
King David
BL Add MS 37768; the 'Lothar Psalter'; c.840 CE-855 CE; Germany (Aachen) or Northern France (Tours); f.5r @BLMedieval
St Jerome
BL Add MS 37768; the 'Lothar Psalter'; c.840 CE-855 CE; Germany (Aachen) or Northern France (Tours); f.6r @BLMedieval
Psalm 1 with initial 'b'(eatus) #GOLD
BL Add MS 37768; the 'Lothar Psalter'; c.840 CE-855 CE; Germany (Aachen) or Northern France (Tours); ff.9r-9v @BLMedieval
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The divided generation: the builders of the Tower of Babel kill each other #HebrewProject
BL Add 27210; the 'Golden Haggadah'; 14th century; Spain, N.E.; f.3r @BLAsia_Africa@BL_HebrewMSS
The construction of the Tower of Babel, to the destruction of which is attributed the confusion of languages
BL Cotton MS Claudius B IV; Old English Hexateuch; 2nd quarter of the 11th century with notes added in 12th century; England (Canterbury); f.19r @BLMedieval
The Tower of Babel being attacked by angels
BL Add 18850; 'Bedford Hours'; c1410-1430 CE; France, Central (Paris); f.17v @BLMedieval
The Feast of St Michael and All Angels is on 29th September. Here Michael the Archangel is holding the scales to weigh the souls at the Last Judgement and spears a dragon.
BL Harley MS 624; Passionale; 12th century; England SE (Canterbury); f.134v @BLMedieval
St Michael as a warrior wearing chainmail is here spearing a dragon.
BL Yates Thompson 2; 'The Ottobeuren Collectar'; 12th century; Germany, S. (Ottobeuren); f.37r @BLMedieval
St Michael slaying the dragon and pulling a soul from the dragon's mouth
BL Egerton 3763; 'Prayer book of Archbishop Arnulph II of Milan'; between 998 CE & 1018 CE; Italy, N. (Milan); f.104v @BLMedieval