Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

De balneis Puteolanis
Italy, ca. 1400
MS G.74 fol. 3r

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Bath, Pozzuoli, Sulphatura -- In hexagonal well, group of nude women bathe. To left, clothed woman tests water with hands. To right, nude woman places both hands in water.
Above, between two hills, man strikes base of tree (?) with axe.