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| Keywords: William de Brailes - Leaf from Bible Pictures by William de Brailes - Walters W10612R - Full Page.jpg Walters Art Museum artwork Creator William de Brailes This scene from Walters manuscript W 106 depicts a moment during the wandering of the Israelites in the desert after their escape from the bondage of Egypt The Israelites came into the wilderness of Zin and evil place and they thought that they would die there because there was no water Moses depicted here with horns as a sign of his encounter with divinity struck a rock with his staff and water flowed from it ca 1250 Medieval ink pigment parchment cm 13 2 9 5 accession number W 106 12R 27478 Léon Gruel Paris date and mode of acquisition unknown Henry Walters Baltimore June 6 1903 by purchase see The Diaries of George Lucas Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1903 Translation When Moses led the people through the desert they did not find any water Then the people murmured and said that they wished more to have remained in servitude in Egypt than to die here of thirst Moses struck the rock; water issued from it They drank; Transliteration Quant myses amena le peple par le desert ne truverent puint de ewe dunc grucea le peple e dit que meuz voleint aver alte en servage en egypte que la murir de seif moises feri en la roche ewe en issi il burent place of origin Oxford England United Kingdom Walters Art Museum license 2D Walters MS W106 - Bible Pictures by William de Brailes Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Moses in miniatures | ||||
