Angel watching the slaying of clerics

Angel watching the slaying of clerics

A framed miniature from the Commentary: three men with swords kill three clerics and their souls rise up as birds; on the right a king watches, smiling and holding a sword. On the left in a spired building Christ is a quatrefoil looks down on an angel at an altar with a scroll on which is an eagle is perched. Depiction of architectural details like those to the left of this image have helped scholars to date this manuscript: the naturalistic ivy leaf that surmounts the gable was first used at Notre Dame in Paris after about 1260, and first appears in England in the chapter houses of York Minster and Southwell Minster after about 1270. 

Additional 42555

Revelation (the 'Abingdon Apocalypse '), with abridged Berengaudus commentary in French on alternate pages

http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=8752&CollID=27&NStart=42555

British Library

3rd quarter of the 13th century

f. 26