Similar
Last Supper and Christ washing Peter's feet from BL Royal 1 D X, f. 5
Assault on Tyre from BL YT 12, f. 75
Proserpina gathers flowers with her companions; Ceres concerned for her daughter Proserpina, whom Pluto carried off - the rape of Proserpina (background)
Solomon from BL Royal 19 D III, f. 144v
Cupid from BL Harley 4431, f. 117
Tobias from BL Royal 15 D I, f. 23
The Trinity: God the Father holding the body of Christ (Not Gottes)
Scene from Exodus from BL Add 27210, f. 14v
The Planet Saturn Represented as a Man on a Donkey
Related
Blood from BL Eg 1821, f. 7 - Public domain medieval manuscript
Blood from BL Eg 1821, f. 8 - Public domain medieval manuscript
Blood from BL Eg 1821, f. 7v - Public domain medieval manuscript
Drops of blood from BL Eg 1821, ff. 1v-2
Blood from BL Eg 1821, ff. 6v-7
Casting the babies into the river from BL Add 26957, f. 42
River of Badashan from BL Royal 19 D I, f. 72v
The angel of temperance from BL Eg 943, f. 107v
Birth of the Virgin from BL Eg 2781, f. 9v
Centaurs by the river of blood from BL Eg 943, f. 22
Summary
Framed miniature of Dante and Virgil looking at centaurs beside a river of blood. Image taken from f. 22 of Divina Commedia (index Divine Comedy): Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso, with a short Latin commentary; the Capitolo (ff. 187-187v). Written in Italian.
The Egerton Manuscript Collection is named after its founder, Sir Thomas Egerton (1540-1617), 1st Viscount Brackley, was a lawyer, statesman, and patron of the arts during the reigns of Queen Elizabeth I and King James I of England. He served as Lord Keeper of the Great Seal and later as Lord Chancellor of England, holding high positions in the legal and political realms.
Sir Thomas Egerton acquired a substantial number of historical and literary manuscripts. In 1617, shortly before his death, Sir Thomas Egerton bequeathed his collection of manuscripts to the British Museum, which was the precursor to the British Library.
The Divine Comedy is a poem by Dante Alighieri, begun c. 1308 and completed 1320, a year before his death in 1321. It is widely considered the preeminent work of Italian literature and is seen as one of the greatest works of world literature. The poem's imaginative vision of the afterlife is representative of the medieval worldview as it had developed in the Western Church by the 14th century.