Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Tongerloo missal
Belgium, 1552
MS M.983. Fol. 008r

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Apostle Peter, holds key with left hand, and Apostle Paul holds sword with right hand, both rays as nimbus. With other hands both grasp corner of sudarium showing head of Christ, rays as nimbus (?), holding it between them.
The apostles stand below arches with architectural ornament and before decorated wall.Adam and Eve: Fall of Man -- Nude Eve, seated on ground right arm resting on basin, raises left hand holding fruit to right hand of nude Adam, standing, left hand raised to branch of tree. Trunk of the tree, with leafy branches and fruit, is behind Eve; serpent with female head (Lilith), entwined around the tree, looks down toward Eve. All are amid animals and birds including deer (stag), goat, monkey, rabbit, and possibly lion, and donkey (ass).