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The Woeful Eagle

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Date: about 1255–1260
Medium: Tempera colors, gold leaf, colored washes, pen and ink
Culture: English
Department: Manuscripts
Institution: Getty Museum

After the first four trumpets sound, Saint John sees an eagle flying through the heavens. The illuminator represented the eagle's words on a scroll clutched in its talons: *Ve, ve, ve, habitantib[us] in terram* (Woe, woe, woe to the inhabitants of the earth). Each *woe* represents one of the three trumpets still to be sounded.

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