Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Paris, between 1471 and 1485
MS M.815 fol. 131v

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Christ: Last Judgment -- Christ, with crossed nimbus, showing wounds, partially draped in mantle, gesturing, sits on arc with feet on tripartite globe, flanked by Virgin Mary, nimbed, veiled, and Evangelist John, nimbed, holding goblet with serpents. On ground below are three souls emerging from graves and a fourth, turning away, with scroll inscribed IN I[N]FERNO P[RO]TEGAS ME [UT] ABSCO[N]DAS ME DONEC PERTRANSEAT FUROR TUUS. To right stands Job, wearing turban-like hat, holding scroll inscribed PUTASNE MORTUUS HOMO RURSUM VIVANT.
Floreate margins in lozenge patterns, inhabited in left margin by man, wearing hat, holding staff or spear over his shoulder, and in lower margin by dragon.