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Christ in Majesty; Christ, with cross-nimbus, long hair, mustache, beard, robe embroidered with precious stones, enthroned within mandorla, holding book with jeweled cover with left hand on left knee, raising right hand in gesture of blessing, enframed by two circles with jeweled borders in form of figure eight, letters alpha and omega flanking neck; checkered background of mandorla decorated with three eight-petaled rosettes on either side; outside mandorla at four corners, four Evangelists shown in human form except for symbolic animal heads (Matthew excepted), nimbed, winged, each holding closed book with jeweled cover in both hands, one draped, one undraped; at upper left, Matthew with human head looking toward right; at upper right, John with eagle's head looking toward left; at lower left, Mark with lion's head looking up toward Christ; at lower right, Luke with ox's head looking up at Christ.This Apocalyptic miniature shows Christ at His second coming surrounded by the mandorla, appearing to give judgment to mankind. John in his vision of the Last Judgment (Revelation 20-21) saw the dead standing in front of His throne, during the opening of the book of life and other books which contained the record of what they had done in their lives, by which the dead were judged. Anyone whose name could not be found in the book of life was thrown into the burning lake. Those whose names were listed in the Lamb's book of life were admitted to the heavenly Jerusalem.The miniature shows Christ flanked by the Greek letters alpha and omega. In Revelation (1:7-8) on the occasion of His second coming, Christ says: "I am the Alpha and the Omega, who is, who was, and who is to come, the Almighty." He appears surrounded by the four Living Creatures in Revelation (4:6-5:10), who came to be identified with the four Evangelists ( a href="/records/5ck.090" 5Ck.090 ). The animal-headed Evangelists are thought by one scholar ( a href="/records/5ek.114" 5Ek.114 ) to have derived from Coptic art, and to have first spread through Visigothic Spain, Merovingian southern France and Ireland. (For examples, see a href="/records/5bk.034" 5Bk.034 ; a href="/records/5dk.063" 5Dk.063 ).; |Christ in Glory, seated in mandorla with checkered ground, three eight-petaled rosettes on either side, and double disk forming figure eight behind throne. Symbols of Four Evangelists in corners.; |The Sacramentaire de Limoges , also called the Sacramentaire de la Cathédrale Saint-Etienne and the Sacramentaire de Saint-Etienne de Limoges , written in Latin, was executed at the Cathedral of Limoges ca. 1095-1105 (Gaborit-Chopin), ca. 1100 (Porcher; Bibl. Nat.), beginning of the 12th century (Thoby), in the first half of the 12th century (Leroquais) or in the 12th century (Lauer). It comprises 144 folios measuring 27 x 16.5 cm. and has about a dozen miniatures described by Lauer. Previous scholarship refers to the MS as the Missal from Limoges or the Limoges Missal.;

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