Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

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Spain, perhaps in Tábara, ca. 940-945
MS M.644 fol. 40v

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Nebuchadnezzar: Dream I -- Stone, inscribed LAPIS SINE MANIBUS QUI EUULSUS EST DE MONTE ET PERCUSSIT IN PEDIBUS STATUE ET CREUIT ET REPLEUIT UNIVERSUM MUNDUM IN TERRA LAPIS QUEM REPROBABERUNT ID EST CANTES HIC FACTUS EST IN CAPUT ANGULI ID EST CHRISTUS, at feet of image, inscribed STATUA QUAM UIDIT NABUQUODONOSOR CUIS INTUITUS ERAT TERRIBILIS; mountain inscribed MONS, EUULSIO LAPIDIS, HIS CO...UUL...EST CHRISTUS EST, with gap to right.
Illustration for Beatus of Valcavado, In Apocalipsin, II, Prolog., 8.