Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Mirrour of the blessed lyf of Jesu Christi and other devotional texts
England, ca. 1440
MS M.648 fol. 5v

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Trinity: Mercy Seat -- God, crossed nimbus, holds with both hands (one draped) crossbar of tau cross, to which Christ, crossed nimbus, eyes closed, head inclined, bleeding from wounds, wearing diaphanous loincloth, is affixed with three nails. Dove of Holy Ghost hovers above head of Christ. They are flanked by saints (?), including three crowned women, two tonsured men, one with joined hands. Canopy is in background. All enclosed in mandorla supported by half-figures of four angels, decorated nimbi, one possibly crossed.
Inscription in left margin next to initial, PRO DIE LUNE.
Initial A decorated with floreate ornament. Rectilinear frame enclosing text and miniature decorated with foliate, and vining floreate, ornament.