Pocket Miscellanies #1: Adam

The iconography of Adam in late medieval art is as varied as imaginative. Non-Biblical stories about the first humans (apocrypha) expanded on the existing accounts, and Adam often figures as a precursor of Christ incarnate, since he was originally created as an image of the face of god. Some iconography of creation of Adam collected in this miscellany is widespread in medieval manuscripts, while others are unusual or even unique