Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Vitae patrum
Italy, Naples, between 1350 and 1375
MS M.625 fol. 61v

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Agathon of Thebaid: Scene, accused by Brothers -- Agathon of Thebaid, nimbed, tonsured, wearing monk’s habit, with sack slung over right shoulder, departing to left.
In center, Agathon of Thebaid, nimbed, tonsured, wearing monk’s habit, kneeling, both hands on tau-staff.
At far right, among group of five monks (three with only heads visible), one wearing hood the rest tonsured, the foremost two with sacks slung over right shoulders.
Scene in landscape amid trees.
Illustration of Rufinus of Aquileia, De Vitis Patrum, Chapter 21.