Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
Netherlands, Utrecht, ca. 1490
MS S.1 fol. 144v

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Christ: Resurrection -- Christ, cross-nimbed, partially draped in mantle, showing wounds in hands, side, and feet, holding cross-staff with cross-inscribed banner in left hand, stands with right hand raised in blessing in front of sarcophagus. Around the sarcophagus are four soldiers, including three wearing helmets, one sleeping, one armed with mace, and one armed with shield and halberd. Crossbow on ground. In distance are three Marys (Holy Women), and landscape with city of Jerusalem, with steeple surmounted by cross and domed building surmounted by crescent moon.
Margins with vinescroll and floreate ornament, inhabited by bird.