Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Lectionary
Belgium, possible Bruges, ca. 1470
MS M.68 fol. 232r

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Apocalypse: New Jerusalem -- John, nimbed, with joined hands, kneels on one knee in landscape. He looks up toward New Jerusalem as walled city, and God as half-figure in rayed arc of Heaven, wearing triple-crowned tiara, holding globe with left hand, and with right hand, scroll inscribed ECCE TABERNACULUM DEI CUM HO(MIN)IBUS (Revelation 21:3). Illustration of Revelation 21:2-3.