Hortus Deliciarum facsimile Tab.07

This engraving is a 19th-century facsimile of a 12th-century manuscript illumination. The top register shows the Pope wearing a phrygium seated with a bishop and an apostle, while the middle shows a tonsured cleric on horseback. The bottom scene depicts 'Ishmaelites' leading two pack animals laden with heavy sacks tied with rope.

As part of Herrad of Landsberg's 'Hortus Deliciarum', this work represents the 12th-century impulse to create a visual encyclopedia of theological and historical knowledge. It illustrates the transition from the biblical past to the established ecclesiastical hierarchy of the medieval world.