Seth Planting the Branch in the Mouth of the Dead Adam
ca. 1440
The Netherlands, Utrecht
MS M.917/945, pp. 90–91
Purchased on the Belle da Costa Greene Fund with the assistance of the Fellows, 1963
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Seth arrives home too late to give his father the consolation he so desired. Adam died in his son's absence (the deep landscape suggests a long return journey). Seth plants the branch from the Tree of Mercy in his father's mouth.