drunken Noah, Ham mocking, Shem and Japheth facepalming

Genesis 9:20-24 ‘Cœpitque Noe vir agricola exercere terram, et plantavit vineam. Bibensque vinum inebriatus est, et nudatus in tabernaculo suo. Quod cum vidisset Cham, pater Chanaan, verenda scilicet patris sui esse nudata, nuntiavit duobus fratribus suis foras. At vero Sem et Japheth pallium imposuerunt humeris suis, et incedentes retrorsum, operuerunt verenda patris sui: faciesque eorum aversæ erant, et patris virilia non viderunt.’ (‘And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard: and he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent. And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without. And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father’s nakedness.’)

Biblia Pauperum, Netherlands ca. 1395-1400.

British Library, Kings 5, fol. 15r

Eve emerging from Adam’s rib

Saint Ambrose, Hexaemeron, Germany 12th century.

Amiens, BM, ms. Lescalopier 30, fol. 10v

DRUNKEN NOAH, ELISHA & SADO-PEDOBEAR

Genesis 9,21-23 & 2Kings 2,23-25

Biblia pauperum, Bavaria ca. 1430-1450.

Heidelberg, Cod. Pal. germ. 148, fol. 103v

Genesis 7:9-14

Egerton Genesis Picture Book, England 14th century.

BL, Egerton 1894, fol. 9v

VARIATIONS SUR LE NYAN CAT

Bodleian, MS. Auct. D. inf. 2. 11, fol. 59v

Genesis 9,12: And God said, This is the token of the Couenant which I make betweene mee and you, and euery liuing creature that is with you, for perpetuall generations. I doe set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a couenant, betweene me and the earth. And it shall come to passe, when I bring a cloud ouer the earth, that the bow shall be seene in the cloud. And I will remember my couenant, which is betweene mee and you, and euery liuing creature of all flesh: and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh. And the bow shalbe in the cloud; and I will looke vpon it, that I may remember the euerlasting couenant betweene God and euery liuing creature, of all flesh that is vpon the earth.

BL, Royal 15 D II, fol. 152

Revelation 12,1: And there appeared a great wonder in heauen, a woman clothed with the Sunne, & the Moone vnder her feete, and vpon her head a Crowne of twelue starres.