Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

II Chronicles.
Bologna, Italy, ca. 1270
MS G.38.I, fol. 172r

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Solomon: Scene, possibly Solomon: sacrificing at Gibeon -- Male attendant, behind Solomon, crowned, hands extended, standing before draped altar in vaulted space with arches supported by slender columns.
All within initial C at beginning of II Chronicles (Vulg., II Paralipomenon).
In left margin, next to the initial, right hand and head of man descending from decorated vertical bar toward Evangelist Symbol of Luke with head of ox on human body, holding book with both hands.
In lower margin decorated foliate vine inhabited by bird, centaur, wearing hat extending bow with left hand, having shot arrow to lion standing on the vine at right.
Pen flourished initial D.