Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of Hours
Italy, Lombardy, ca. 1475-1500
M.256 fol. 202r

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John Baptist, nimbed, wearing animal skin, indicates with right hand scroll held in left hand, inscribed ECCE AGNVS.
Figure in initial D decorated with foliate ornament.
Margins decorated with blocks of floreate ornament on gold ground, inhabited by phoenix, wings raised, sitting amid flames.