In the third register of folio CCCXXIIII v, inside the first vignette, Christ is

depicted standing on the left wearing a red tunic, and a dark blue and light blue mantle,

and He has a cross halo. He holds on his left hand a small ax, while He seems to reproach

Mary Magdalene with his right. Mary Magdalene wears red and blue attire as well, and

she is in a proskinesis attitude, holding unto the foot of Christ as if ready to kiss it.

Floating over her is the conceptualized image of a garden. Two inscriptions identify this

scene. The first inscription, hic dns apparuit pmo marie Magdalene in orto (here the Lord

appears first to Mary Magdalene in the garden), is located above the small ax and the

garden. The second inscription, Tunc maria putabat eum ortolan2um ee, conuersa illa

adorauit eum (then Maria was thinking that He was a gardener, but having turned around

she adored him), is located between Mary Magdalene and the garden. According to Yarza

Luaces, the iconography of the Bible ofAvila on this theme is rather extraordinary and

unique, since Christ was not to be represented as a gardener again until the beginnings of

the 14th century. Another example of the Noli me Tangere can be found in the Homilies

of San Isidoro of Leon that is dated by Yarza Luaces to the 11Ith to 12th centurieS.102

 The second vignette on the third register of folio CCCXXIIII v represents the

Pilgrims of Emmaus (Luke 24, 13-29). In this episode, two Disciples of Christ' s were

going to a village called Emmaus on the same day of the Resurrection, and while they

were talking to each other about the things that had happened in Jerusalem, Jesus came

near and went with them. The two men did not recognized Him and thought that He was

yet another pilgrim. Christ asks them what they were talking about, and one of them

answered, "Are you the only stranger in Jerusalem who does not know the things that


102 Yarza Luaces, J., Iconograjia de la 2iniatura Ca;stellano-Leonesa,~~11~11~~1 1973, p. 32.