Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Wisdom of Solomon.
Bologna, Italy, ca. 1270
MS G.38.II, fol. 015r

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Solomon, crowned, holding scales with right hand and up-turned sword with left hand, seated on cushion within initial D at beginning of Wisdom of Solomon.
In center margin, next to the initial, grotesque with head of bull, body of human, holding round object with raised right hand.
Birds perching in upper and lower margins.