Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Lectura super codicem
Italy, Naples, 1438
MS M.442 fol. 1r

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Scene, Secular: administering Justice -- Judge, wearing hat with crown (?), is seated on throne, holding scepter with right hand, indicating, with left hand, man, wearing headgear, kneeling on one knee, holding sack or money bag with right hand and scroll with pseudo-inscription with left hand. Behind him stands a second man holding hat with right hand.