Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Job.
Bologna, Italy, ca. 1270
MS G.38.I, fol. 217v

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Job: with Wife and Job: with Friends Three -- Job, pearled nimbus, right hand supporting head, body covered with sores, reclines on mattress and looks toward wife, veiled, extending left hand, standing next to the mattress. She is surrounded by six men, three only tops of heads visible.
All within initial U at beginning of Job.
In center margin, at terminus of decorated vertical bar, cleric, tonsured, with vase (?) on head.
In lower margin, decorated foliate vines with head or mask of bull, inhabited by two birds, each looking back at nude man holding club and shield.