Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
Netherlands, Utrecht, ca. 1490
MS S.1 fol. 127v

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Christ: Last Judgment -- Christ, partially draped in mantle, with wounds in hand, side, and feet, emanating rays, sits on arc with feet on tripartite globe. Flanking His head are lily and sword, all in mandorla. At either end of the arc kneel Virgin Mary and John Baptist, both nimbed, with joined hands raised, amide clouds in which are angels playing horns.
On ground below Christ is gate of paradise, with three angels (?) playing horns, and at doorway, apostle Peter, tonsured, with hand extended to nude man (soul). Other nude men and women stand with Peter. To right is Hell, with winged and horned demons carrying nude souls, and other souls already amid flames and rocks.
Margins with vinescroll and floreate ornament.