Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Praeparatio ad missam pontificalem
Italy, Ferrara, ca. 1485
MS M.279 fol. 32v

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Initial A enclosing, and decorated with, floreate ornament. Standing on foliage at top of left margin, soldier, with olive-leaf crown, wearing armor with face or mask on breastplate, holding golden globe with extended right hand and grasping shield with left hand.