Similar
Universe from BL Royal 19 C I, f. 34v
Dancing from BL Stowe 17, f. 38
Petrus de Crescentiis zu teutsch, mit Figuren
Monk from BL Burn 275, f. 205 - Public domain medieval manuscript
Taurus; Libra, German manuscript, J. Paul Getty Museum
Last Supper: Christ and the apostles at table
Dialogue with Death from BL Stowe 39, f. 32
Bodleian Libraries, Latin Gospels 28r
Lucifer and the mouth of Hell from BL Eg 943, f. 61v
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Paradise: the heaven of the moon from BL Eg 943, f. 131
Paradise: six souls from BL Eg 943, f. 153
Paradise: four resurrected souls from BL Eg 943, f. 152v
Paradise: the heaven of Mercury from BL Eg 943, f. 135v
Five souls and a cross in the heaven of mars from BL Eg 943, f. 158
Paradise: the dazzling light from BL Eg 943, f. 152
Detail: six souls and the heaven of mercury from BL Eg 943, f. 136v
Purgatory: a rainbow and souls in white robes from BL Eg 943, f. 116
Five Dominicans in the heaven of the sun from BL Eg 943, f. 144v
Paradise: five souls and the moon from BL Eg 943, f. 132v
Summary
Framed miniature of Beatrice, Dante, five female souls, and the moon. Image taken from f. 132v 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.
Hey diddle diddle, The cat and the fiddle, The cow jumped over the moon; The little dog laughed to see such sport, And the dish ran away with the spoon. /A nursery rhyme from the 1700's /