MASTER of the Dresden Prayer Book
(active 1465-1515 in Bruges)

Hours of Philip the Fair

c. 1495
Manuscript (Additional MS 17280)
British Library, London

Folio 280 of this manuscript is the opening page of the Office of the Dead. It features interconnected miniatures. In the roundels Death approaches a single individual, a man and a woman, creating a loose dance of death across the page. They complement the main miniature, which shows a death vigil with a churchyard burial viewed through the chapel window.




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