Images of the Devil in the Medieval/early-modern period
Guillaume de Deguileville (translator), ‘Devil holding a hook encircling naked people with a rope.’ from The Pilgrimage of the Soul (East England, circa between 1413 and 1475), shelfmark: Egerton 615 f. 34. © British Library Board
Guillaume de Deguileville (translator), ‘Devils’ from The Pilgrimage of the Soul (East England, circa between 1413 and 1475), shelfmark: Egerton 615 f. 46v.
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‘God holding a compass with angels and cherubins, and Lucifer with fallen angels and devils’ The Queen Mary Psalter (England, 1310-1320), shelfmark: Royal 2 B VII f.1v.
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