File:Transitory tomb - 1435-40.jpg

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Summary

English: Transi image (

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Artist

Unknown Miniaturist, English (active 1430s)

Title

English: Transi image

Date

between 1435 and 1440

Medium

Pen and ink with wash

Dimensions

height: 180 mm (7.08 in); width: 180 mm (7.08 in)

Collection

British Library

	Native name	British Library
	Location	London
	Coordinates	51° 31′ 46″ N, 0° 07′ 37″ W
	Established	1 July 1973
	Website	www.bl.uk
	Authority file	: Q23308 VIAF: 121814978 ISNI: 0000000123081542 ULAN: 500301700 LCCN: n81139951 NLA: 36588116 WorldCat

Accession number

British Library Additional MS 37049, f.32v

Source/Photographer

Web Gallery of Art:

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File:British Library Additional 37049 32v Lady in Tomb.png

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MINIATURIST, English

(active 1430s)

Transi image 1435-40 Pen and ink with wash, 180 x 180 mm British Library London

The picture shows folio 32v from Disputacion Betwyx the Body and Wormes, an illustrated English poem.

The 'transi' or transitory tomb became popular in the early fifteenth century in northern Europe, but not in Italy or Spain. The worldly honours of the deceased are juxtaposed with the mortal body's inevitable decay. The illustration from the Disputacion Betwyx the Body and Wormes shows a well-dressed effigy of a noblewoman. Her richly coloured sculpted image masks her actual physical state, represented below, in which her cadaver is being eaten by worms and maggots.

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Author: MINIATURIST, English Title: Transi image Time-line: 1401-1450 School: English Form: illumination

Type: religious