Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
Belgium, ca. 1475
MS M.254 fol. 114v

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1) Adam and Eve: Fall of Man -- Within initial O, Adam, with left hand raising fruit to mouth and Eve, with right hand offering fruit, flank fruited Tree of Life, around which is wound serpent (Lilith); in landscape. 2) Christ: Crucifixion -- Within initial T, Christ, nimbed, eyes closed, wearing crown of thorns and transparent (?) loin cloth, bleeding from wounds in head, hands, side and feet, is affixed to tau-cross with titulus of pseudo-inscriptions, flanked below by bones (parts of skeleton). Decorated border of scrolling foliate and floreate ornament. Miniature at beginning of Prayers to Image of Christ and the Crucifix.