Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
Netherlands, ca. 1494
MS M.1078 fol. 128v

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Christ: Last Judgment -- Christ, showing wounds, emanating rays, partially draped in mantle, with lily and sword flanking His head, with right hand raised, sits on arc. Flanking Him are Virgin Mary and John Baptist, both with rays as nimbus, kneeling with joined hands raised on clouds. Below is Apostle Peter, tonsured, with rays as nimbus, standing before cross-surmounted gate of Paradise, extending right hand to one of group of nude male and female souls. To right, horned devil casts nude soul into flaming hell mouth, in which are other nude souls.
Margins with scattered flowers, including lilies and roses, inhabited by three birds, two butterflies, and a fly.