Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
Netherlands, ca. 1410-1420
MS M.1073 fol. 88v

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Christ: Last Judgment -- Christ, with crossed rays as nimbus, partially draped in mantle, showing wounds in hands, feet, and side, sits on arc with right hand raised. Flanking him above are two angels, each playing horn, from which scroll extends, inscribed SURGITE MORTUI and VENITE AD IUDICIUM. On ground below are Virgin Mary and Evangelist John, both with rays as nimbus and kneeling with joined hands raised. Faces of four souls are framed in graves in ground. Diapered background.
Miniature enclosed in fluted frame with quatrefoils at corners, within an outer frame of decorated bands, with ivy-rinceaux ornament extending into margins.