Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Berry Apocalypse
France, Paris, ca. 1415
MS M.133 fol. 80v

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Apocalypse: Last Resurrection and Judgment -- Amid clouds, angel, holding book with both hands, kneels on one knee before Christ, cross nimbed, wearing conical tiara, raising right hand. Below, one of five dead rising from graves is sewn into shroud, and another raises joined hands. Shrine with cross is at right.
Illustration of Revelation 20:11-12.