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from beneath whose feet is springing a tree, and wraps around him a banner with words upon it which translate literally as: "A little rod from Jesse gives rise to a splendid flower", following the language of the Vulgate. Instead of the ancestors seen in later depictions, seven doves (with
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employed is very different from that usually found in such images, which she argues relates to an assertion of the rightful kingship of the royal patron. The page showing the
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under the signature XIV A 13. In 2005 it was declared as a National cultural monument of the Czech Republic.
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has not been used to support a number of figures, as is usual. Instead, the passage from
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is in the book. In a paper analysing this image, J.A. Hayes Williams points out that the
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has been depicted in a very literal way. In the picture, the prophet Isaiah approaches
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Information given to the European Library site by the Czech National Library
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The Earliest Dated Tree of Jesse Image: Thematically reconsidered.
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Index

Coronation Gospels of Vratislav II
Prague
National Library of the Czech Republic

St. Wenceslaus
initial
Bohemian
Hand of God
Evangeliary
Bavaria
Latin
Vratislaus of Bohemia
Parchment
Vyšehrad
Prague Metropolitan Chapter Library
Czech
illuminated
Romanesque
Gospel Book
Bohemia
Czech Republic
Vratislav
Bohemia
St. Emmeram
Regensburg
Czech National Library, Prague
Tree of Jesse
iconography
illuminated
Ancestors of Christ

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