Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Sacramentary
France, Mont-Saint-Michel, ca. 1060
MS M.641 fol. 120r

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Zacharias, nimbed, seated on cushioned bench, raises pen in right hand and holds book with pseudo-inscription in left hand (suggesting John Baptist: Naming).
Figure within initial D decorated with interlace and animal heads, at beginning of Collect for Feast of Birth of John Baptist.