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Courtesy of Bild-Archiv Der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek, Wien/COD. 1179, FOL. 104C, c

These paired roundels show a bathing Bathsheba (top); the commentary and lower illustration compare her act to that of the church, depicted as a queen, cleansing herself of sinners—the three Jews (one of them holding a moneybag) at right, whom the church rejects with a dismissive downward wave of the hand.