# A History of Western Saints [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MINIATURIST, French]() - Date: 1301-1350 - Technique: Manuscript \(MS Fr. 352\) ## Commentary A History of Western Saints 1300-20 Manuscript \(MS Fr. 352\) Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris The miniature on folio 52v of this early 14th-century vellum codex depicts the capture of Jerusalem in July 1099. In the foreground the battle is at its height, with armoured knights scaling ladders. The assault is being led by Godfrey of Bouillon and the knights of Lorraine. In the background the Passion of Christ is revealed in the Betrayal, Flagellation, Carrying the Cross and Entombment. ## Related artworks - [Antiphoner]() - [Aristotle: De Interpretazione]() - [Aristotle: Works]() - [Augustinus Hipponensis: Quaestiones et locutiones in Heptateuchum]() - [Augustinus Hipponensis: Quaestiones et locutiones in Heptateuchum]() - [Augustinus Hipponensis: Quaestiones et locutiones in Heptateuchum]() - [Beatus of Liébana: Commentary on the Apocalypse]() - [Belleville Breviary]() - [Bible Historiale]() - [Bible moralisée, part I.]() - [Bible moralisée, part I.]() - [Bible moralisée]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()