Detail of a miniature from the 14th-century manuscript known as the "Egerton Genesis Picture Book", picturing the Fifth day of Creation, with God creating animals, including a monkey, a deer, a bear, and a lion.
Featured on PDR in the collection Rainbows in Art
Or, since that hope denied in worlds of strife,
Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life!
The evening beam that smiles the clouds away,
and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray!
(Lord Byron, The Bride of Abydos)
Also appearing in the collection…
Fifth Day of Creation
Date
14th century
From
Egerton Genesis Picture Book
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