Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Langres, ca. 1465
MS G.55 fol. 77v

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Christ: Last Judgment -- Christ, with cross projecting nimbus, raising right arm in blessing, wearing crown of thorns, partially nude, displaying bleeding wounds, is seated on rainbow with feet on globe. He is flanked above by two suns or stars emitting rays, and below by two angels playing horns. Below Him, three men, one with arms crossed on breast, and one with joined hands raised, and two women, one with joined hands raised, and the other with joined hands, all stand in graves. Scene in hilly landscape with bushes and with buildings in background.
Margins decorated with floreate ornament, inhabited by rabbit. In left margin, heraldic shield of Pierre de Bosredont (quarterly, vair and gules).