Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Poème sur la Passion
France, Rouen, ca. 1530
MS M.147 fol. 12r

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Christ: before Caiaphas -- Christ, cross-nimbed with rays, is bound by rope tied at wrists, led by right hand of helmeted soldier, wearing zoomorphic epaulettes, and by left hand of man, raising right hand, all before Caiaphas, wearing high priest’s miter and decorated cope fastened with morse, rising up out of canopied throne, extending right hand toward the Christ.