Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

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Italy, Naples, between 1350 and 1375
MS M.626 fol. 17r

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Anthony Abbot the Great: Scene, Vision of Souls, condemned -- Among group of men, some hooded, some possibly monks in habits, all accompanying Anthony Abbot the Great, nimbed, tonsured, wearing monk’s habit, with left hand on tau-staff and with right hand raised toward three winged and horned devils, two issuing flames from mouth, all falling downward.
Scene in Athanasius, Life of Anthony Abbot the Great.