Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Apocalypse
Belgium, Ghent, ca. 1475
MS M.484 fol. 48v

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Apocalypse: Trumpet V, Locust Plague -- Five locusts, one back-turned, in the form of winged horses with crowned heads of men with long hair. As tails, three have two legged animals hanging from hindquarters.
Grisaille miniature with color wash.
Margins decorated with border of floreate rinceaux.
Illustration of Revelation 9:7.