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Miniature of a corpse lying in an open grave in a churchyard, with a scroll...

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Image title: Miniature of a corpse lying in an open grave in a churchyard, with a scroll above reading 'Circumdederunt me dolores mortis et pericla inferni inuenerunt me. Sperantem in domino misericordia circumdabit'. To the right, a demon emerges from the earth and snatches at the nude soul which rises from the corpse, with a scroll reading 'Libricus fuit'. Two angels fly towards the soul, with scrolls reading 'Penituit et elemosinam dedit' and 'Sinite illam: iustum et impium iudicabit dominus'. Above is God the Father surrounded by red angels. With a full foliate border, including a lower miniature of mourners surrounding a body being laid in a grave, at the beginning of the Office of the Dead
Location: British Library, London, UK

Image description: Book of Hours, Use of Rome ('The Dunois Hours') France, Central (Paris); c. 1440 - c. 1450 (after 1436) Language: Latin, with a French calendar Source/Shelfmark: Yates Thompson 3, f.201v
Photo credit: From the British Library archive / Bridgeman Images
Image keywords: 15th century / angel / cemetery / mourning / graveyard / god / mourning / grave / dead body / lamentation / deceased / dead / manuscript / demons / corpse / death / soul / 15th century / churchyard / cadaver / document / cemetry / demon / religion

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