Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Psalms.
Bologna, Italy, ca. 1270
MS G.38.II, fol. 054v

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Group of monks, tonsured, one with mouth open, foremost standing at lectern, holding book with left hand, indicating page of book with right hand, within initial C at beginning of Psalm 098 (Vulg., 097).
In center margin, partial figure of man wearing hood, holding shield, inserted into decorated vertical bar, next to the initial.
In upper and lower margins, birds perching on decorated horizontal bars, or enclosed in medallions of vine.
Pen-flourished initials.