Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Abrégé des histoires divines
France, possibly Amiens, between 1300 and 1310
MS M.751 fol. 109r

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Romanus I Lacapenus: Scene, with Sons --Two sons, Constantine and Stephen, as monks, tonsured, raising right hands, stand before Romanus I Lacapenus, crowned, raising right hand, sitting with crossed legs on bench.
Scene against gold background within pink and blue frame decorated with white ornament.
Miniature inserted near text relating to reign of Romanus I Lacapenus as Emperor of the East.