Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Psalter-Hours
Belgium, Liège, 1261
MS M.440 fol. 12v

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1) Christ: Betrayal and Arrest, and Apostle, Peter: cutting off Ear of Malchus -- Man, wearing pointed hat, holds lantern and torch, beside Apostle Peter, tonsured, with fold of garment in left hand and with sword in left hand cutting ear of Malchus holding mace and falling backward, and standing beside Judas raising right hand toward shoulder of Christ, cross-nimbed, looking toward him, with book in His left hand and with His right arm grasped by man, wearing cap and pointed hat, raising sword.
2) Christ: Flagellation -- Pilate, wearing hat and holding scepter in left hand, stands beside one of two tormentors raising scourges and flanking Christ, cross-nimbed, in loin cloth, standing with wrists bound to column in front.
Gold backgrounds with decorated frames.
Miniature on verso facing French Walloon poem on recto (Sinclair, no. VI).