Solomon Observing the Measuring of the Timber
ca. 1440
The Netherlands, Utrecht
MS M.917/945, pp. 104–105
Purchased on the Belle da Costa Greene Fund with the assistance of the Fellows, 1963
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Having cut the tree and shaped the timber, the carpenter measures it with string. Solomon, dressed as he was in the previous miniature, again oversees the activity, scepter still in hand. The wood, however, always found to be either too long or too short for use in the temple, is rejected.