Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

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Italy, Naples, between 1350 and 1375
MS M.626 fol. 8r

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Anthony Abbot the Great: Scene, teaching -- Group of tonsured monks, wearing monk’s habits, one wearing hood, accompanying Anthony Abbot the Great, nimbed, wearing monk’s habit, with right hand holding staff and with left hand extended to indicate stream and landscape with trees.
Scene in Athanasius, Life of Anthony Abbot the Great.