In the picture, the prophet Isaiah approaches Jesse from beneath whose feet is springing a tree, and wraps around him a banner with words upon it which translate literally as: "A little rod from Jesse gives rise to a splendid flower", following the language of the Vulgate. Instead, the passage from Isaiah has been depicted in a very literal way. The Jesse Tree has not been used to support a number of figures, as is usual. The page showing the Jesse Tree is accompanied by a number of other illuminated pages of which four depict the Ancestors of Christ. Hayes Williams points out that the iconography employed is very different from that usually found in such images, which she argues relates to an assertion of the rightful kingship of the royal patron. The earliest known representation of the Tree of Jesse is in the book. In 2005 it was declared as a National cultural monument of the Czech Republic. The manuscript is now located in the Czech National Library, Prague under the signature XIV A 13. They probably originated in the circle of the scriptorium at the Monastery of St. The codex is of Danubian provenance, and closely related to three other surviving manuscripts – two of them now in Poland and one in the Prague Chapter Library. It was probably made at the order of Czech diplomats to honour an anniversary of the Czech King Vratislav's coronation which took place in 1085 (Vratislav was the first king of Bohemia, which was previously a dukedom). Its extremely rich iconography and its visual components rank it among the most precious illuminated manuscripts of the second half of the 11th century in Europe. The Vyšehrad Codex (Latin Codex Vyssegradensis), also known as the Coronation Gospels of King Vratislaus, is a late 11th-century illuminated Romanesque Gospel Book, which is considered the most important and most valuable manuscript kept in Bohemia ( Czech Republic). The new Bohemian monarchy uses the crowning haloed Hand of God in the Coronation Gospels of Vratislav II
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