The Last Judgment

This manuscript illumination features Christ centered in the upper register, displaying the stigmata on his hands and feet, seated on a golden orb. To his left and right, the Virgin Mary and John the Baptist kneel in prayer. Below, a bearded saint wearing a red mantle and blue robe gestures toward a line of naked resurrected souls, leading them toward a domed structure representing the threshold of Paradise. To the right, a large, grotesque hellmouth—a monstrous head with gaping jaws—swallows a group of nude figures into a pit of orange flames. The scene is bordered by a decorative frame of gilded, interlacing foliage on a red ground.

This illumination is characteristic of medieval depictions of the Last Judgment, drawing on the iconography found in the Book of Revelation and apocryphal traditions concerning the end of the world. It serves as a visual reminder of the dual outcome of the final divine verdict: salvation for the righteous and eternal torment for the damned.