Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Apocalypse
Belgium, Ghent, ca. 1475
MS M.484 fol. 100r

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Apocalypse: Dragon imprisoned -- Half-figure of angel, holding chain with right hand and key with left hand, emerges from cloud above dragon. At right, three men and youth (?) stand before two men wearing hats, seated on thrones, one extending right hand, the other indicating with his right hand, the three men (Apocalypse: First Resurrection).
Grisaille miniature with color wash.
Margins decorated with border of floreate rinceaux.
Illustration of Revelation 20:1.