Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Berry Apocalypse
France, Paris, ca. 1415
MS M.133 fol. 69v

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Apocalypse: Christ, Praise of Judgment -- Christ, cross-nimbed, wearing conical tiara, raising right hand and holding tripartite globe in draped left hand is seated, flanked by four angels playing viol, trumpet, portative organ and lute. All are within cloud-edged arc of Heaven.
Illustration of Revelation 19:1-5.