Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Weltchronik
Germany, Regensburg, ca. 1360
MS M.769 fol. 250r

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Lucretia: Scene, Suicide -- Five men, one wearing hood, are behind draped table on which are glass, bowls, loaves, and pitcher. Four look toward, two gesture at, and one grasps right arm of, Lucretia, crowned, stabbing breast with knife in right hand, and bleeding from wound.