Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Sketchbook formed of six panels of prepared boxwood
France, probably Paris, ca. 1400
MS M.346 fol. 2v

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Five portraits, four as busts:
1) Sudarium -- Head of Christ, unnimbed.
2) Youth (?), with curly hair held by cord, nearly in profile facing left.
3) Youth, behind him, turned to right.
4) Young woman head inclined slightly to right.
5) Young woman (?) holding ring in left hand, in three-quarter view, facing left.