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Next up: Lucifer, the prince of hell, surrounded by lesser devils. Are they breathing fire or spitting blood?
MS. Douce 134, fol. 98r: https://t.co/3FOESucGR5 #FolkloreThursday
A king languishes in a pool of fire and brimstone.
MS. Douce 134, fol. 87r: https://t.co/3WvraUDoiG #FolkloreThursday
The lecherous are punished with your standard pit of fire, courtesy of delicately shaded devils.
MS. Douce 134, fol. 86r: https://t.co/pkEGeZy7rt #FolkloreThursday
The wrathful are stabbed and stoned by devils who look rather like dragons and stone gargoyles respectively.
MS. Douce 134, fol. 84r: https://t.co/18Hxb7nhmb #FolkloreThursday
The envious, meanwhile, are punished by devils with pitchforks and alternating ice and fire baths.
MS. Douce 134, fol. 83v: https://t.co/e8F9U1qYDo #FolkloreThursday
Here, the souls of the proud and vainglorious are broken on a wheel by a devil straight out of Where the Wild Things Are.
MS. Douce 134, fol. 83r: https://t.co/Z7U3ds5HDS #FolkloreThursday
Next, the sinners and devils are accused, judged and, according to Christ's speech scroll on fol. 76r, sentenced to "depart cursed into the eternal fire".
MS. Douce 134, fols. 74r, 75r and 76r https://t.co/liJAi2SohT #FolkloreThursday
...but our favourite is this one, where Lucifer, flanked by devils, is judged by Christ, who sits on a rainbow. Count Lucifer's heads.
MS. Douce 134, fol. 67v https://t.co/3XvDh484yt #FolkloreThursday
After the Antichrist dies, the 15 signs of the Last Judgment follow (we covered these last week). Then, finally, it's time for the main event, featuring trumpets and a spectacular hellmouth.
MS. Douce 134, fol. 50v: https://t.co/rE7FjkMbqN #FolkloreThursday
Next: the death of the Antichrist, whose soul is immediately taken by the devil.
MS. Douce 134, fol. 36r: https://t.co/A9leT2dQkg #FolkloreThursday
Having infiltrated Jerusalem, the Antichrist presides over scenes of torture. Content warning: graphic violence. https://t.co/d63Vw2olkA [MS. Douce 134, fol. 30r] #FolkloreThursday
Hoodwinked
Missal
Germany, Hamburg, before 1381
@MorganLibrary MS M.892.3 fol. 001r
Falling stars, Livre de la Vigne nostre Seigneur, France ca. 1450-1470 (Bodleian Library, MS. Douce 134, fol. 47r) https://t.co/fkyX7ZGFs1
Cats. Stealing our yarn since the dawn of time...
#InternationalCatDay2018
From the Beaupre Antiphonary Vol. 1, W.759, fol. 169r. See the entire amazing book here:
https://t.co/aQj75nnRB6
Bohemian Illuminator (Prague)
The Martyrdom of Saint Maurice and the Theban Legion
Bohemia (1402)
Illumination on Parchment, 460 x 230 mm.
Martyrology (129 fols.), fol. 94 sup v , left border, second medallion from top: Martyrdom of St. Maurice and the Theban Legion.
#ElephantOfTheDay has dozed off in the heat. He boasts a slightly porcine curly tail & terrific tusks. Caption: Elephant inscribed SPODIUM I(D EST) ELEPH(ANTU)S. @julianpharrison @aethelflaed Source: Compendium Salernitanum. Italy, possibly Venice, 1350-137; M.873 fol. 80r.
Boars going wild, Gaston Phébus, Livre de la chasse, France c. 1415 (Chantilly, Musée Condé, 367 [480], fol. 13v)
Cats, 'The Ashmole Bestiary', England 1201-1225 (Bodleian Library, MS. Ashmole 1511, fol. 35v) https://t.co/ZbqNbm7yZW
Pretty small illumination (Apostle Paul with Women) from a #medieval #Bible of Zikmund from Domažlice, written 1419 in #bohemia (#NationalLibraryCZ VIII A 8, fol. 458r) https://t.co/VtipP4yeDb