Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
Belgium, Bruges, ca. 1440
MS W.3 fol. 98v

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Christ: Last Judgment -- Christ, rays as cross nimbus, showing wounds, His body partially draped, is seated on arc with feet on tripartite globe. He is flanked above by two blue angels blowing horns, and below by Virgin Mary and Evangelist John, both with rays as nimbus, kneeling, hands raised, looking up at Christ. Graves open up in ground with faces peering from openings.
Scene on grassy foreground with red background decorated with vine scroll.
Margins decorated with border of floreate ornament and with escutcheon with heraldry incorporating the arms of the Seigneur de Lannoy (argent, three lions vert crowned or).