Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Literary
Italy, Florence, ca. 1330-1337
MS M.289 fol. 31r

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Dante: Text, Divina Commedia, Purgatorio, Canto 01 (Arrival in Ante-Purgatory) -- Dante and Virgil, wearing headgear, gesture toward Cato, standing beside two men within flaming cave in mountain of Purgatory, all within decorated initial P.
Margins decorated with foliate vinestem borders, with dragon in lower margin.