Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Hours of Claude Molé
France, Paris, ca. 1500
MS M.356 fol. 64v

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Christ: Last Judgment -- Christ, nimbed, wearing partly draped mantle, showing wounds in head, hands, side and feet, raises right hand, lowers left hand, and sits with feet on tripartite globe, within rayed mandorla, surrounded by four wingless angels playing trumpets. He is flanked by Virgin Mary, nimbed, veiled, and by John Baptist, nimbed, both with joined hands raised, kneeling on clouds, attended by two groups of eight and seven nimbed angels, respectively. Below, among nude souls of the resurrected, male and female, some with joined hands raised, including one wearing bishop’s miter, many emerge from ground, looking up; five devils, one grasps one of nude Damned, one raises mace, two carry Damned, and one carries basket of Damned on back; in right background, four Damned hang from beam (gallows); in right foreground, group of Damned appear beyond and under tongue in flaming Hell Mouth. Scene in landscape. Miniature within architectural frame of two columns supporting pediment.