Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Breviary
Belgium, Bruges, ca. 1500
MS M.52 fol. 146v

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Christ: Resurrection -- Christ, rays as nimbus, wearing mantle, holding bannered cross-staff, appears outside enclosed sepulcher above four soldiers, two holding spears, sleeping beside lantern.
Scene framed by border inscribed in display script SVRREXIT DOMINVS DE SEPVL.