Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Vaticinia sive prophetiae et imagines summorum pontificum
Italy, ca. 1390
MS M.402 fol. 8v

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Hybrid man, wearing crown (?), antlers emerging from neck, clawed front feet grasping cloak, and tail terminating in animal head, biting hilt of sword.
Figure enclosed in circular frame of interlace with four medallions enclosing four birds.