"In art he was represented in at least two
ways. Sometimes he is depicted slaying
the dragon (...). Less familiar nowadays, but
frequent in medieval art, were paintings
of him weighing souls. either as part of a Doom or separately. (...) Certain
iconographical links with ancient Egyptian paintings are commonly claimed in
this type of representation."
"Michael" in Farmer, David Hugh, The Oxford Dictionary of Saints, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2003, pp. 367-368.
"St. Michael with scales for weighing souls"
Oxford, Bodleian Library MS. Douce 134, fol. 073r. daqui
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