Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Bible
France, ca. 1260
MS M.110 fol. 211v

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Figures within three registers of decorated initial I:
1) Cleric, nimbed, tonsured, wearing chasuble, indicating priest, and apparel on alb, possibly indicating deacon, within top register.
2) Zechariah, nimbed, holding book in right hand and pointing upward with left hand, within middle register.
3) Darius the Mede, crowned, pointing downward with right hand and upward with left hand, within lower register.
Beginning of Zechariah.