Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Vitae patrum
Italy, Naples, between 1350 and 1375
MS M.626 fol. 109v

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1) Theophilus the Monk: Scene, encountering Pygmies with Sergius and Hyginus -- At left, Theophilus the Monk, Sergius the Monk and Hyginus the Monk, all nimbed, tonsured and wearing monk’s habits, one wearing cap, with sack slung over left shoulder, raising right hand toward group of pgymies, at least one woman, some gesturing, all in hilly landscape with trees.
2) Theophilus the Monk: Scene, picking Fragrant Herbs with Sergius and Hyginus -- At right, Theophilus the Monk, Sergius the Monk, and Hyginus the Monk, all nimbed, tonsured and wearing monk’s habits (two only partly visible), the foremost kneeling, and lowering right hand to plant, all in hilly landscape with trees.
Scenes in common landscape framed by two trees.
Illustration of Theophilus, Sergius, and Hyginus, Life of Macarius of Rome.