Noah's Flood. 14th-century manuscript illustration showing a scene from the biblical story of the Deluge. Noah, in his ark, is releasing a raven and a dove, symbolizing vice and virtue. The dove is shown returning with an olive branch. In the water, there is a dead ox and two human corpses. The raven is feeding on a dead horse, while the dove plucks an olive branch from a submerged mountain. The text is in Anglo-Norman French. This illustration is from the Holkham Bible Picture Book, produced in England in the 1320s.