Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Apocalypse
France, probably Lorraine, 1290-1299
MS M.1071.2r

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Apocalypse: Beast, War with Saints -- Beast, as lion with disks around seven heads of nine horns, holds buckler and thrusts spear into one of seven fallen unnimbed saints on ground. Above in cloud-edged arc of heaven, Christ, cross nimbed, as half figure, raises right hand in blessing, holds book in left hand, and looks toward the Beast, in half mandorla flanked by heads of six nimbed saints.
Scene with patterned background, within decorated frame.
Illustration of Revelation 13:7-10.