This codex is on of the three illustrated vernacular manuscripts of Suzo's work. It contains a lavishly illustrated cycle of images, produced for a patron with expensive taste.
The miniature on folio 13v shows an exhibition of 14th-century clocks. The two characters are the Dominican author, Heinrich Suzo (c. 1295-1366), and Lady Wisdom. The clocks, from left to right, are an astrolabe, a clock which chimes the hour by pulling a rope running through the ceiling, a large mechanical clock with five bells and four smaller clocks on the table.
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