Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Psalter-Hours
Belgium, Liège, 1261
MS M.440 fol. 14v

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1) Christ: Harrowing of Hell -- Christ, cross-nimbed, partly draped, with right hand thrusts bannered cross-staff into and tramples on recumbent Satan with hands bound, and with left hand grasps left wrist of Adam, accompanied by Eve and group of men, all nude, emerging from flaming Hell Mouth at top of which horned bestial devil is seated.
2) Christ: noli me tangere -- Christ, cross-nimbed, partly draped, holds cross-inscribed bannered cross-staff in right hand and extends left hand toward Mary Magdalen, nimbed, veiled, raising hands, seated on ground beside one of two trees.
Gold backgrounds with decorated frames.
Miniature on verso facing French Walloon poem on recto (Sinclair, no. VIII).