Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Bible
Italy, Padua, ca. 1287-1300
MS M.436 fol. 200r

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Initial:
Fool, tonsured, half nude, holding club with right hand and lifting large cup to lips with left hand, is seated on stone (?).
Scene within initial D decorated with foliate ornament and with foliate extenders.
Margin:
Gold balls, and vine decorated with balls and foliate ornament inhabited by hybrid animal with human body and by bird.
Beginning of Psalm 53 (Vulg., 42).