Memento Mori

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Memento Mori from BL Add 39636, ff. 5-8, 11-12, 30-32, f. 6

Historiated initial 'D' of a Memento Mori, measuring 125 x 110. On the reverse, partial four-line stave, musical notation and text: '..antur'. Image taken from f. 6 of Cuttings from a Gradual. Written in Latin.

Demons using every effort to distract the men from their prayer; God the Father with angels; tortures in hell

The Trinity, groups of men, and devils in hell: wise men, half way between men and God, try with their wisdom to enable miserable mortals to attain bliss after death

True Religion liberating mankind from the gods: devils falling into hell; Christians praying

Numa Pompilius and Pythagoras by mystification of the devils resort to hydromancy; devils in hell

Souls ascending to Janus and Terminus, who are holding the world; souls descending to hell

Harrowing of hell

Harrowing of Hell: Christ leaves hell and liberates the souls

Master teaching his pupils on heaven and hell

Harrowing of Hell: Christ leaves hell and liberates the souls

The Last Judgement: Christ on a rainbow raises the dead in the presence of Mary and St. John the Baptist; trumpeting angels, the damned in hell

Harrowing of Hell: Christ leaves hell and liberates the souls

The Last Judgement: the raising of the dead, the blessed in Abraham's bosom (heaven), the damned in hell

The parable of Dives and poor Lazarus: Lazarus in Abraham's bosom, Dives in hell

Death of Judas: Judas hangs himself from a tree

Lazarus and Dives: in hell Dives sees Lazarus in paradise; Dives pointing at his tongue

Death of Antiochus IV Epiphanes

Death of Solomon

Memento Mori from BL Eg 1070, f. 53

Detail of a full-page miniature of a Memento Mori. Image taken from f. 53 of Book of Hours, Use of Paris ('The Hours of René d'Anjou'). Written in Latin, calendar and rubrics in French.

Memento Mori from BL Eg 1070, f. 53

Full-page miniature of a Memento Mori, with the banner 'Memento homo quod sinis es et in sinere reverteris' [Remember, man, that you are dust and to dust you will return). Image taken from f. 53 of Book of Hour... more

Large illuminated initial, border work, small initials, rubric, placemarkers.

The Last Judgement: Christ on a rainbow with Mary and St. John, St. Peter receives the blessed in heaven, represented as a castle with trumpeting angels, represented as a castle with trumpeting angels, the damned are thrown into hell, the damned thrown into hell

Round miniatures of souls in torment, skull, and sun.

Death, as a skeleton holding a scythe, rides a cart drawn by black oxen, with the dead strewn on the ground.

Memento mori. [Portrait of Lincoln within a black border containing 13 stars.]

[Woman, seated, facing skeleton symbolizing death] / Dall...(?)

Revunvio de calaveras de catrines y borrachos, de viejos y de muchachos, de gatos y garbanceras

Broadside shows a calavera instructing people to go into the graveyard. The text conveys how the time will come for everyone to end up there. A second calavera in verse (epitaph) is titled "Calavera widows, cal... more

The old man and death

Segunda calavera taurina de la nueva estudiantina. A este toro delgado cual espina, hoy lo viene a torear la estudiantina

Broadside shows four human skeletons in triangular hats and carrying musical instruments taunting a skeleton bull. The text, in verse, conveys the slaying of the bull and speaks of death in general.

Mural by the Mojado Brothers after the Mexican cartoonist Guadalupe Posada, Crocker St. corner 5th St., Skid Row, LA, 1996