Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of hours
France, perhaps Bourges, ca. 1522
MS M.1135. Fol. 015r

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Apocalypse: Lamb opening Book -- Lamb, with two eyes and seven horns, stands on hind legs before altar, and raises its forepaws to Book of Seven Seals, indicated by Hand of God emerging from cloudy arc of heaven, before arcade.
Illustration of Revelation 5:5-7.