Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Vitae patrum
Italy, Naples, between 1350 and 1375
MS M.626 fol. 81r

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1) Athanasius, Patriarch: Scene, receiving Stolen Tunic -- At left, accompanied by group of tonsured monks (most with only heads visible), wearing monk’s habits, the foremost with both hands holding crozier, Patriarch Athanasius, nimbed, mitered, wearing vestments, seated on draped faldstool of the animal type, with right hand extended tunic extended in hands of Antiochus of Jerusalem, nimbed, wearing monk’s habit, kneeling.
2) Athanasius, Patriarch: Scene, Antiochus and Infant -- At right, accompanied by group of seven tonsured monks (most with only heads visible), wearing monk’s habits, Patriarch Athanasius, nimbed, mitered, wearing vestments, raises both hands, all looking down toward woman, eyes closed, laying on ground, possibly bleeding, above her stands Antiochus of Jerusalem, nimbed, tonsured, wearing monk’s habit, with both hands holding swaddled infant, both assailed from behind by group of five men, at least three raising clubs.
Scenes in common landscape, framed by two trees.
Illustration of Patriarch Athanasius, Doctrina Ad Antiochum Ducem.