Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
Belgium, ca. 1470
MS M.93 fol. 125v

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Personification: Soul, borne to Heaven -- Half-figure of God, wearing triple crown tiara, surrounded by camaïeu angels, appears in arc of heaven, rayed. Below, female figure, nude (personification of soul), with joined hands raised, is borne in cloth by two angels, above an open grave in landscape setting.
Margins decorated with floreate border.