Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

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Italy, Naples, between 1350 and 1375
MS M.626 fol. 19r

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Anthony Abbot the Great: Scene, giving Counsel in Old Age -- Anthony Abbot the Great, nimbed, tonsured, wearing monk’s habit, with left hand holding tau-staff and with right hand raised toward kneeling man, wearing cap, with joined hands raised, accompanied by group of kneeling men, some gesturing, one with left arm grasped by foremost man of another group of men; trees.
Scene from Athanasius, Life of Anthony Abbot the Great.