Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

De precepto prudentie
Northern France or Belgium, ca. 1300
MS M.1164. Fol. 058v

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Nicasius de Planca, wearing red hooded garment, sits on chair before lectern with left hand raised to head and his right hand on open book on lectern.
Figure against gold background beneath trefoil arch, within decorated initial E.
Cat sits on foliate extension in lower margin.
Beginning of Book II.