Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Lectionary
Germany, around Halle, ca. 1220-1230
MS M.299 fol. 10r

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Virgin Mary: Death -- Virgin Mary, nimbed, wearing cross-inscribed veil, eyes closed, lies with her hands crossed on her breast on four-post decorated bed before cross-nimbed Christ. He holds nimbed soul of Virgin Mary, clothed, with her hands clasped at her breast. They are flanked by seven nimbed apostles, one with decorated nimbus, including tonsured Peter swinging censer and bald Paul. Two nimbed angels, raising draped hands to their faces in mourning, descend from above.
Decorated frame.