Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Carmina varia
Italy, Naples, ca. 1475
MS M.867. Fol. 001r

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Initial I partly formed by female Personification of Virtue holding cornucopia filled with foliage.
Lower margin with unidentified escutcheon; party per pale: or, four fesses sable, and azure (damaged).Initial beginning Part I of Book I of the Parthenopeus.