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DescriptionBnF MS Gr139 folio 419 verso - detail - Nyx.jpg |
English: The goddess Nyx ("Night"; Greek: Νύξ, Núx; Latin: Nox) in a 10th-century Greek manuscript, the Paris Psalter.
Here Nyx is labelled and shown nimbate with a dark complexion, with dark clothes and a starry mantle. The full image shows the crossing of the Red Sea in two registers: above, the prophet Moses and the Israelites through the desert with personifications of Night and Desert (labelled: ἔρημος), following the pillar of fire; below, the Red Sea drowns the army of Pharaoh as personifications of the Red Sea (labelled: ἐρυθρὰ θαλαση [sic]) and of the "Depths" (labelled: βυθός) drown Pharaoh himself. The lower scene illustrates the Book of Exodus 15:1–19, especially ch. 4–5: ἅρματα Φαραω καὶ τὴν δύναμιν αὐτοῦ ἔρριψεν εἰς θάλασσαν, ἐπιλέκτους ἀναβάτας τριστάτας κατεπόντισεν ἐν ἐρυθρᾷ θαλάσσῃ. πόντῳ ἐκάλυψεν αὐτούς, κατέδυσαν εἰς βυθὸν ὡσεὶ λίθος. *The chariots of Pharao and his host he threw into the sea; choice riders, third-ranked officers, he drowned in the Red Sea. With open sea he covered them; they sank into the deep like stone. (NETS)
The upper register illustrates the Book of Exodus 13: 21–22: ὁ δὲ θεὸς ἡγεῖτο αὐτῶν, ἡμέρας μὲν ἐν στύλῳ νεφέλης δεῖξαι αὐτοῖς τὴν ὁδόν, τὴν δὲ νύκτα ἐν στύλῳ πυρός· οὐκ ἐξέλιπεν ὁ στῦλος τῆς νεφέλης ἡμέρας καὶ ὁ στῦλος τοῦ πυρὸς νυκτὸς ἐναντίον παντὸς τοῦ λαοῦ. *Now God was leading them, by day a pillar of cloud to show them the way but during the night by a pillar of fire. The pillar of cloud during the day and the pillar of fire by night did not depart from before all the people.
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Date | 9 March 2015 (online on Gallica) |
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Illustrated painted parchment Greek manuscript psalter (the "Paris Psalter", c. 940–960 AD) in the Bibliothèque nationale de France. (BnF MS grec 139) folio 419v. [1] |
Author | Bibliothèque nationale de France |
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