Description
Full-page miniature, in colours and gold, of the universe, the earth, the spheres between heaven and hell (here depicted are not only the spheres through which the celestial bodies were thought to travel but also four others, to highlight the elements of matter), with God and angels at the top of the image in heaven, and falling angels becoming devils (angels who were cast out of heaven or who sinned against God, seen falling and in hell below the cosmos). A Book of Hours contains a collection of prayers and psalms for Christian devotion and this image reminds of the need to live a life in conformity to God’s will.
Bibliography
Mary Coker Joslin and Carolyn Coker Joslin Watson, The Egerton Genesis (London: British Library, 2001), p. 176.
