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The history of Our Lord as exemplified in works of art : with that of His types, St. John the Baptist, and other persons of the Old and New Testament (1890)

Jameson, Mrs. (Anna), 1794-1860 · London ; New York : Longmans, Green · leaf 306

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, CHRIST DELIVERING THE SOULS. 256 introduce these two quaint illustrations from a MS. of the 14th century in the Ambrosian Library, Milan (woodcuts, Nos. 213 and 214). And while they were thus in altercation, there arose on a sudden a voice as of thunder and the rushing of winds, saying, ‘ Lift up… … 214 Christ at Door of Hell. (MS., 14th century. Ambrosian Library.) King of Glory. And then he said to his impious officers, ‘ Shut the brass gates of cruelty, and make them fast with iron bars, and fight courageously.’ Then the saints cried in anger, ‘ Open thy gates, that the King of Glory may…

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