Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Apocalypse
Belgium, Ghent, ca. 1475
MS M.484 fol. 81r

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Apocalypse: Vial VI, Frogs -- Beast with seven crowned heads and ten horns, mouths open with tongues emerging, stands on hind feet, flanked by two winged frogs flying toward four flanking men, two crowned, holding scepters.
Scene in landscape with hills in distance.
Grisaille miniature with color wash.
Margins decorated with border of floreate rinceaux.
Illustration of Revelation 16:13.