Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Vitae patrum
Italy, Naples, between 1350 and 1375
MS M.626 fol. 120v

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1) Wetti of Reichenau: Scene, Vision, led by Angel to Mountain surrounded by River of Fire -- Wetti of Reichenau, nimbed, tonsured, and wearing monk’s habit, with left wrist grasped by right hand of nimbed angel, with left hand extended toward one of two mountains, on which group of nude male souls, and possibly one female soul, are engulfed in flames.
2) Wetti of Reichenau: Scene, Vision, led by Angel to Mountain of Towers -- Wetti of Reichenau, nimbed, tonsured, and wearing monk’s habit, with left wrist grasped by right hand of nimbed angel, with left hand extended toward mountain on which are two crenellated and towered buildings.
Scenes in common landscape framed by two trees.
Illustration of Walahfrid Strabo, Visio Wettini.