Detail from fol. 235 of the Bedford Hours
Circa 1414-1423
Manuscript illumination
British Library Add. 18850, folio 235.
In this inset accompanying a larger image of Jesus carrying the cross, a devil creeps onto the bed of Pilate's wife Claudia Procula with the message, se ton mary fait mourir iesus mal lui vendra [et a] toy et a tes amis, "If your husband has Jesus put to death evil will come upon him and upon you and your friends." The woman then tells a servant to take a message to Pilate urging him not to condemn Jesus, as in Matthew 27:19.
Although in Matthew Claudia says she had her vision "today," the belief that it came to her in a dream at night goes back to the 4th-century Gospel of Nicodemus, II, 1 ("I have suffered many things because of him by night") and is accepted by most subsequent commentators.1
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