# The Morgan Crusader's Bible [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MINIATURIST, French]() - Date: 1201-1250 - Technique: Manuscript \(M. 638\) ## Commentary The Morgan Crusader's Bible c. 1250 Manuscript \(M. 638\) The Morgan Library and Museum, New York Exceptionally, medieval artists would sometimes convey the full horror of war. Among other Old Testament images, the miniature on folio 10v of this 13th-century French Bible depicts an episode from the Book of Joshua, the Conquest of Ai \(Joshua 8:1-29.\). Soldiers are shown, some with visors or helmets, some mounted on horses, one caparisoned, one holding bannered lance, others armed with shields, lances, swords. One raises pick-axe above fallen soldier. another mounts ladder against building from which one heaves stone and one attacks with battle-axe. The King of Ai, crowned, hangs from machine of war. ## Related artworks - [A History of Western Saints]() - [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.]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()