Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

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Italy, Naples, between 1350 and 1375
MS M.626 fol. 10v

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Anthony Abbot the Great: Scene, teaching -- Among group of kneeling tonsured monks, wearing monk’s habits, one gesturing, one with joined hands raised, and one reading from open book with pseudo-inscriptions, all accompanying Anthony Abbot the Great, nimbed, tonsured, wearing monk’s habit, kneeling with tau-staff between his hands, looking upward. At right, three winged and horned devils possibly in guise of men, wearing tunics, with claw feet.
Scene in Athanasius, Life of Anthony Abbot the Great.