Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Missal
England, perhaps Cambridge, ca. 1320
MS M.107 fol. 240v

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John Baptist, nimbed, wearing hooded mantle, with left hand raised, holds in right hand Lamb of God, with banner, in mandorla (?). Figure in decorated initial D with marginal extenders.
Border composed of bands enclosing animal masks alternating with medallions enclosing portraits.
Corner medallions enclosing grotesques, including hybrid men and hybrid woman, veiled, with distaff and spindle.