Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Vitae patrum
Italy, Naples, between 1350 and 1375
MS M.626 fol. 126v

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1) Furseus of Lagny: Scene, Obsequies -- At left, within cross-surmounted monastery, body of Furseus of Lagny, nimbed, mitered, eyes closed, and wearing abbot’s habit, laying on draped bed, head on pillow.
Behind the bed, among group of tonsured monks, one holding processional cross, one chanting, tonsured priest reading from open book, and at right, Clovis II, crowned, beside man, wearing cap, in conversation with each other.
2) Furseus of Lagny: Scene, Entombment -- At right, within cross-surmounted monastery, body of Furseus of Lagny, nimbed, mitered, eyes closed, and wearing abbot’s habit, lowered into sarcophagus by two monks among group, all tonsured and wearing monk’s habits, and at right, Clovis II, crowned, beside two men, wearing caps, in conversation with each other.
Scenes in common landscape framed by two trees.
Illustration at end of the Vita Sancti Fursei.