Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

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Italy, Naples, between 1350 and 1375
MS M.626 fol. 13v

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Anthony Abbot the Great: Scene, Miracle of healing Demoniac Woman -- Anthony Abbot the Great, nimbed, tonsured, wearing monk’s habit, with right hand raised and with left hand grasping the extended right hand of demoniac woman, from her mouth issuing winged and horned devil, leaning back into arms of another woman, wearing headdress, accompanied by group of men and women, some in conversation with each other; trees.
Scene in Athanasius, Life of Anthony Abbot the Great.