Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Libro degli uomini famosi
Italy, Venice, ca. 1405
MS G.36 fol. 28v

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Petrarch: Text, De Viris Illustribus, Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus -- Scipio stands flanked by six men, some wearing hoods and some gesturing. All in initial P.
Margin with foliate ornament, inhabited by birds and human heads.