Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
France, Paris, between 1471 and 1485
MS M.815 fol. 140r

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Hell -- Job, wearing hat, holding scroll inscribed IN INFERNO MILLA EST REDEMPTIO, and Evangelist John, nimbed, holding goblet with serpents in right hand and in left hand scroll inscribed DESIDERABUNT MORI ET MORS EFFUGIET AB EIS, flank young man, with hat hanging over his shoulder, kneeling with joined hands raised and with scroll inscribed DIMITTE UT PLANGA[M] PAULULU[M] DOLORE[M] MEUM. Above is Christ, with crossed rays as nimbus, with hands raised, in arc of heaven, ringed in clouds and emanating rays. In background is hell, with two devils and six nude souls amid flames. Two of the souls have scrolls inscribed 1) UTINAM CONSUMPTUS ESSEM, and 2) QUARE DE UULUA EDUXISTI ME.
Margins with floreate and scroll ornament, inhabited by moth, fantastic animal, and fire-breathing dragon (emblem of Henry VII ?).