lost and found : Pretty medieval manuscript of the day is the Tres...

Pretty medieval manuscript of the day is the Tres riches heures of Jean duc du Berry. I realised it had been a little while since I’d looked at that most beautiful manuscript. It shows the Canaanite woman begging Jesus to exorcise her daughter, whom she believes to be possessed by a demon. The image is based on this story from the Gospel of Matthew:

[21] And Jesus went from thence, and retired into the coasts of Tyre and Sidon. [22] And behold a woman of Canaan who came out of those coasts, crying out, said to him: Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou son of David: my daughter is grieviously troubled by the devil. [23] Who answered her not a word. And his disciples came and besought him, saying: Send her away, for she crieth after us: [24] And he answering, said: I was not sent but to the sheep that are lost of the house of Israel. [25] But she came and adored him, saying: Lord, help me.

[26] Who answering, said: It is not good to take the bread of the children, and to cast it to the dogs. [27]But she said: Yea, Lord; for the whelps also eat of the crumbs that fall from the table of their masters. [28]Then Jesus answering, said to her: O woman, great is thy faith: be it done to thee as thou wilt: and her daughter was cured from that hour. [29] And when Jesus had passed away from thence, he came nigh the sea of Galilee. And going up into a mountain, he sat there. [30] And there came to him great multitudes, having with them the dumb, the blind, the lame, the maimed, and many others: and they cast them down at his feet, and he healed them:

Gospel of Matthew, chapter 15, from the Douai Rheims translation of the Bible.