Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Apocalypse
Belgium, Ghent, ca. 1475
MS M.484 fol. 39r

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Apocalypse: Winds restrained -- In opening in sky angel raises right arm and with left hand grasps throne. On barren earth below four angels each hold, with both hands, personification of wind as head of man.
Grisaille miniature with color wash.
Margins decorated with border of floreate rinceaux.
Illustration of Revelation 7:1.