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Christ's descent into hell, Syriac lectionary, about 1220

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Christ's descent into hell, Syriac lectionary, about 1220

Place: Mosul · today Iraq
Date: 13th century

Document Manuscript

Full-page miniature from a Syriac gospel lectionary (British Library Add MS 7170, fol. 156v) showing the risen Christ with a cross, raising Adam and Eve from broken gates, inside a patterned border. The manuscript was made in northern Iraq, probably in the Mosul region, about 1216 to 1220.

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Source

Wikimedia Commons (British Library, Add MS 7170)

Unknown 13th-century artist · Public domain

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