France: Noah supervising the building of the ark with God's blessing from on high. Miniature painting from the Bedford Hours, by the Bedford Master (fl. 15th century), c. 1423. The Bedford Master was an manuscript illuminator active in Paris during the fifteenth century. He is named for the work he did on two books illustrated for John of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford between 1415 and 1435. One is the Bedford Hours, a Book of Hours, in the British Library. Noah (or Noe, Noach) was, according to the Hebrew Bible, the tenth and last of the antediluvian Patriarchs.

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