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Death on horseback (fol. 137v)

Archive Piece: BC MS 5/18 Contains digital media

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Death on horseback (fol. 137v)

Other titles: Textualis Quadrata

Level: Piece

Classmark: BC MS 5/18

Date(s): [ca. 1440-1460]

Language: Latin

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/373015

Collection group(s): Medieval Manuscripts

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Death, represented as a black skeleton on a horse with red horns, sharp teeth and a long red tongue, rides out of trees to attack a group of frightened men


Context: Office of the dead: Vespers: Dilexi quoniam

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