Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Pauline Epistles, with commentary by Petrus Lombardus
Spain, Sahagún, 1181
MS M.939 fol. 1r

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Scene, Occupational: Book-making, cutting parchment -- Man, possibly Peter Lombard, stands behind desk and holds sheet of parchment in right hand and in left hand knife above another sheet of parchment on desk. Scene in initial P decorated with foliate ornament.