Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Apocalypse
Belgium, Ghent, ca. 1475
MS M.484 fol. 91v

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Apocalypse: Babylon, Lament of Merchants -- Group of seven men, six wearing hat or headdress, and woman wearing headdress, stand atop high hill overlooking burning city.
Scene in landscape with body of water in which is boat, and with hills and trees in distance.
Grisaille miniature with color wash.
Margins decorated with border of floreate rinceaux.
Illustration of Revelation 18:11.