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Image 381 Illustration of Lucifer, taken from a French manuscript of the fifteenth century in which a series of pictures illustrate 'last things' and Christ's second coming. A contemporary text in English 'The Pricke of Conscience' also deals with the same theme, as do images in the Holkham Bible picture book, produced in East Anglia a century earlier. The devil in the centre of the picture and those round the sides combine elements of the human form with those of pigs, cats, angels, dragons and carry hooks and instruments of torture, they are shown in different colours, with snarling faces and huge fangs, and are intended to instill terror and fear of hell and damnation into the beholders. Bovey, 2003

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