Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of hours
France, perhaps Bourges, ca. 1522
MS M.1135. Fol. 156r

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Personification of Death, as skeleton, looking back over right shoulder, on which rests scythe, carrying hourglass in left hand, tramples five figures, some wearing headgear, all beneath tree, on which crow sits, and before round building.
Illustration at beginning of Office of the Dead.