Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

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Italy, Naples, between 1350 and 1375
MS M.626 fol. 18r

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Anthony Abbot the Great: Scene, with Philosophers -- Anthony Abbot the Great, nimbed, tonsured, wearing monk’s habit, gestures toward group of Philosophers, the foremost extending his right hand, all beneath arc of heaven from which issues Hand of God in blessing; trees.
Scene from Athanasius’s Life of Anthony Abbot the Great.