Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Golden legend
Belgium, Bruges, 1445-1465
MS M.672-5 I, fol. 80v

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Paul the Hermit, and Anthony Abbot the Great: Raven bringing Food -- Raven, with loaf in beak, flies over Paul the Hermit, wearing sackcloth, and Anthony Abbot, wearing vestment inscribed with tau cross and holding staff in right hand. Paul and Anthony, nimbed, are conversing beside hermit's cell with door bell. Wolf, with bell tied around neck, emerges from behind cell. Rosary beads and closed book are on rock beside entrance to cell.
Figures within landscape setting with river or sea on which are water fowl.