Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
Belgium, possibly Brussels, ca. 1475
MS M.485 fol. 166r

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Death, Scene: Struggle for Soul -- Angel, nimbed, cross surmounting head, with cross staff in right hand stabs devil, wearing spectacles (?), on ground. Between them is personification of soul, left arm held by left hand of angel; devil holds left shoulder and leg of the soul.
Exterior scene within initial S.
Upper and lower margins decorated with border of floreate ornament.