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Yates Thompson 31 f. 174v The Last Judgement
The Last Judgement
Description: Three-tiered miniatures of the Last Judgement. Upper tier: miniature of Christ sitting in judgement, flanked on either side by angels holding instruments of his passion and blowing trumpets. Central tier: miniature of Christ sitting in judgement, with the dead rising on either side of him. Lower tier: miniature of an angel crowning the blessed, while another angel drives the lost into the mouth of Hell, in Matfré Ermengau of Béziers's Breviari d'Amour. 
Origin: Spain, E. (Catalonia, Girona?) 


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