The Circumcision of Abraham and Isaac, and the Battle of the Four Kings and Five Kings, on cuttings from a illustrated Old Testament translation in verse, in German, manuscript on paper two cuttings, (a) The Circumcision of Abraham and Isaac from Genesis 17:26, 105mm. by 84mm., the foreground containing two priests in light brown and red robes, in attendance of Abraham, who sits on a marble block with his clothing pulled up and his legs splayed to expose his genitals, one priest steadying his shoulders, another holding his penis and cutting the foreskin, in the background two further priests in blue and green robes doing the same to his infant son Isaac, laid down on thin modern paper but 13 lines of text in German in a fifteenth-century hand visible with back lighting, (b) The Battle of the Four Kings and Five Kings from Genesis 14:9, 99mm. by 84mm., as a medieval battle scene with armoured knights and crowned kings struggling and stabbing or spearing each other, three kings lying on the ground bleeding , one with his crown fallen from his head, also laid down on modern paper but 9 lines visible on verso and remains of a 30mm. deep margin, the words 'daz volkch von ysraha[l]' visible in the third line from the top, both trimmed to edge of scene but in excellent condition, in gilt frames with red velvet mounts
The Circumcision of Abraham and Isaac, and the Battle of the Four Kings and Five Kings, on cuttings from a illustrated Old Testament translation in verse, in German, manuscript on paper two cuttings, (a) The Circumcision of Abraham and Isaac from Genesis 17:26, 105mm. by 84mm., the foreground containing two priests in light brown and red robes, in attendance of Abraham, who sits on a marble block with his clothing pulled up and his legs splayed to expose his genitals, one priest steadying his shoulders, another holding his penis and cutting the foreskin, in the background two further priests in blue and green robes doing the same to his infant son Isaac, laid down on thin modern paper but 13 lines of text in German in a fifteenth-century hand visible with back lighting, (b) The Battle of the Four Kings and Five Kings from Genesis 14:9, 99mm. by 84mm., as a medieval battle scene with armoured knights and crowned kings struggling and stabbing or spearing each other, three kings lying on the ground bleeding , one with his crown fallen from his head, also laid down on modern paper but 9 lines visible on verso and remains of a 30mm. deep margin, the words 'daz volkch von ysraha[l]' visible in the third line from the top, both trimmed to edge of scene but in excellent condition, in gilt frames with red velvet mounts
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