Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Lectionary
Germany, around Halle, ca. 1220-1230
MS M.299 fol. 7v

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Christ: Resurrection -- Christ, cross-nimbed, holds bannered cross-staff in left hand, raises His right hand in blessing, and steps from sarcophagus, on which are grave clothes and against which lid leans. In foreground, three soldiers sit sleeping on ground. One, reclining on his shield decorated with fantastic animal, wears helmet; two others wear hauberks and hold spears.
Decorated frame.