Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Psalms.
Bologna, Italy, ca. 1270
MS G.38.II, fol. 047r

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Fool, tonsured, holding with right hand, bladder on stick, left hand raising bowl to mouth, seated on bench within initial D at beginning of Psalm 053 (Vulg., 052).
Two birds perching on decorated horizontal bar in upper margin.
Grotesque man in center margin, circular object with hair as head, terminating decorated vertical bar.
In lower margin, two foliate medallions enclosing grotesque man, one eye visible, and man blowing horn in medallion at right.
Pen-flourished initials.