Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Psalter
Belgium, Ghent, 1270-1280
MS M.72 fol. 157v

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Christ: Last Judgment -- Christ, cross-nimbed, wearing partly draped mantle, orant, showing wounds, sits on bench-arc with feet on tripartite globe (only top part visible). He is flanked by two angels on each side. First angel holds nails in right hand and raises left forefinger toward the nails; second angel holds cross; third angel with right hand points to cross in left hand; and fourth angel holds crown of thorns.
Below, four partly shrouded souls, two veiled, rise from sarcophagi, flanking fifth soul seated with back turned in sarcophagus. All hold lids.
In corner medallions of frame, four wingless angels blow trumpets.
Scene title, IVDITIUM, in gold majuscules in bottom of decorated frame.