to him: Master, you are going to wash my feet? You would not wash my feet ever. Christ

answers to him: If I do not wash (your feet), you will not have part with me), is located

above Christ with the last two words located above Christ's right arm. According to

Yarza Luaces, this iconography is unique to the Bible ofAvila and is not found in other

manuscripts in the kingdom of Castile and Leon during the 11Ith and 12th centuries.65

 The next folio in the series, folio CCCXXIIII r, is divided into three registers

framed by a border with different decorative patterns. The first register depicts the Kiss

of Judas; the second register depicts the Crucifixion of Christ; and Einally, the third

register depicts the Deposition of Christ (Fig. 9).

 The first register depicts the Kiss of Judas and the Seizure of Christ (Matthew

26:47-56; Mark 14: 13-53; Luke 22:47-53; John 18:1-11). This narrative is a complex

one, since there is more than one episode to the story. The first episode has to do with the

kiss that would identify Christ as the man sought by the Temple Guard that Judas, the

Betrayer, administers. The second episode in the story is the seizure of Christ. The third

episode recounts how Peter, trying to protect Christ, cuts off Malchus' ear, which Christ

then healed. And finally, the last episode in the narrative is Christ being led away by the

guards, and the disciples fleeing.

 The Kiss of Judas in folio CCCXXIIII r actually shows the conflation of some of

the different events in the narrative. Peter cutting off Malchus' ear appears first at the left.

Peter pulls back the head of Malchus making Malchus' ear more available to his sword.

Malchus is kneeling, and he seems to be pushing his body away from Peter, but with no

success. These two figures overlap one of the temple guards who has a club in his hand


65 Yarza Luaces, J., Iconografia de la M~iniatura Ca;stellano-Leonesa,~~11~11~~1 1973, pp. 30-3 1.