The Whore of Babylon depicted in 11th-century French costume. Babylon the Great, a woman in scarlet and purple robes holding a chalice riding the beast from the abyss. Figure de la Grande Babylone, France, XIe siecle. Taken from a manuscript in the Monastery of Saint-Sever, Latin MS 1075, Bibliotheque Imperiale. Chromolithograph by Kause after an illustration by Claudius Joseph Ciappori from Charles Louandre’s Les Arts Somptuaires, The Sumptuary Arts, Hangard-Mauge, Paris, 1858.

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