Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

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Italy, Naples, between 1350 and 1375
MS M.626 fol. 21r

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Anthony Abbot the Great: Scene, dictating Will -- Anthony Abbot the Great, nimbed, tonsured, wearing monk’s habit, with right hand holds rosary and with left hand holds tau-staff, seated on ground before two tonsured monks (scribes), both seated and with left hands holding inkpot and with right hands holding pens to scrolls with pseudo-inscriptions held in their laps.
Scene in landscape amid trees.
Scene from Athanasius, Life of Anthony Abbot the Great.