Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

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Italy, Naples, between 1350 and 1375
MS M.626 fol. 6r

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Anthony Abbot the Great: Scene, Devil admitting Defeat -- Youthful Anthony Abbot the Great, nimbed, raising left hand to breast and lowering right hand toward winged devil, horned, with claw feet, issuing flames from mouth and hindquarters, kneeling and lowering hands; trees.
Scene in Athanasius, Life of Anthony Abbot the Great.