Similar
Sir Patrice eating poisoned apples from BL Royal 14 E III, f. 151v
Franchise and Dangier from BL Royal 19 B XIII, f. 103
King Nascien being given bread at sea from BL Add 10292, f. 56v
Sidoine receiving Ponthus from BL Royal 15 E VI, f. 209
King receiving a homage from BL Royal 10 E III, f. 201v
Triple coronation from BL Royal 20 C II, f. 143
Pfaffe Konrad - Rolandslied - cod. pal. germ. 112 - 105
Arbiter, Arbitrium (Judge, Decision) from BL Royal 6 E VI, f. 128v
Dante's dream from BL Eg 943, f. 3
Related
Inferno: the carnal sinners from BL Eg 943, f. 10v
Paradise: four resurrected souls from BL Eg 943, f. 152v
The souls of the Lustful purged by fire from BL Eg 943, f. 108v
The souls disembark; Casella approaches Dante from BL Eg 943, f. 65v
Paradise: six souls from BL Eg 943, f. 153
An angel ferrying souls to Purgatory from BL Eg 943, f. 65
Inferno, Canto V, Second circle: Minos judging three souls from BL Eg 943, f. 10
Inferno: Virgil and Dante look up at the furies from BL Eg 943, f. 17
The souls of the indolent from BL Eg 943, f. 70
Inferno: souls wait for Charon's ferry from BL Eg 943, f. 7v
Summary
Framed miniature of souls waiting for Charon to ferry them across the Acheron. Image taken from f. 7v of Divina Commedia (index Divine Comedy): Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso, with a short Latin commentary; the Capitolo (ff. 187-187v). Written in Italian.
The Egerton Manuscript Collection is named after its founder, Sir Thomas Egerton (1540-1617), 1st Viscount Brackley, was a lawyer, statesman, and patron of the arts during the reigns of Queen Elizabeth I and King James I of England. He served as Lord Keeper of the Great Seal and later as Lord Chancellor of England, holding high positions in the legal and political realms.
Sir Thomas Egerton acquired a substantial number of historical and literary manuscripts. In 1617, shortly before his death, Sir Thomas Egerton bequeathed his collection of manuscripts to the British Museum, which was the precursor to the British Library.
The Divine Comedy is a poem by Dante Alighieri, begun c. 1308 and completed 1320, a year before his death in 1321. It is widely considered the preeminent work of Italian literature and is seen as one of the greatest works of world literature. The poem's imaginative vision of the afterlife is representative of the medieval worldview as it had developed in the Western Church by the 14th century.