Collection ID: 0023 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

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Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

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Place

France

Notes

• Allegory of Death
   
• This miniature marks the beginning of the Office of the Dead. Though these prayers were to be said for the dead to speed their way to heaven, it was also a reminder for the devotee of his or her own mortality. This scene depicts Death, represented as a corpse, about to strike an emperor and a pope, a reminder that no one, no matter how powerful he or she is, escapes death.
   
• This image shows the reverse of a leaf with a miniature from a book of hours.
   

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Keywords

• 15th century
• France
• French
• Book of Hours
• Devotion
• Illustration
• Fragment

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