Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Bestiary
Northern Italy, ca. 1290
MS M.459 fol. 2v

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Bestiaire d'Amour: Scene, Arrière-ban -- Four soldiers, wearing helmets and armor, and carrying shields, and another man, are astride bridled horses in arches below towers and crennellated wall. Woman, right hand on breast, appears in arched opening in one of the towers, watching the horsemen below.