Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Phaenomena
Italy, Naples, 1469
MS M.389 fol. 1r

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Margins with foliate interlace ornament inhabited by two birds and two rabbits. In upper margin is bust of woman. In right margin is nude cherub playing horn held in both hands. In lower margin are two nude cherubs supporting laurel wreath enclosing escutcheon of arms of Andrea Matteo III, Duke of Acquaviva (quarterly 1 and 4, the arms of Aragon, Hungary, Anjou, and Jerusalem, and 2 and 3, or, a lion azure (Acquaviva)).
Decorated initial A.
Title page.