Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Initial: Jerome, Epistle to Paulinus.
Bologna, Italy, ca. 1270
MS G.38.I, fol. 001r

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Jerome: Scene, distributing Translations -- Jerome, pearled nimbus, tonsured, wearing habit (?), left hand grasping scroll with book or lectern, right hand holding end of scroll also touched by youthful male wearing cap, kneeling on one knee before Jerome. Behind him, Paulinus (?), nimbed, hands draped, standing. All below two arches supported by slender column within initial F at beginning of Jerome's Epistle to Paulinus.
Initial decorated with foliate ornament, mask, head of man rising from leaf, interlace.
In upper margin, busts of two prophets, holding scrolls, enclosed in foliate ornament at terminations of vine. Two winged hybrid animals standing on the vine; vine emerging from heads of two animals at upper left and right.
In lower left margin, bust of monk (?) enclosed in vine; in lower right margin, vine enclosing bust of youthful cleric wearing vestments, gesturing with both hands. Both surrounded by trefoil arch.
In lower margin, at termination of descender from initial, decorated foliate vines, enclosing two half-figures of men, one possibly monk, holding books. Standing on vines, two hunters, wearing hats, holding spears and shields, flanking owl, aiming spears at the owl.
Pen-flourished initials.