Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Hosea.
Bologna, Italy, ca. 1270
MS G.38.II, fol. 131v

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Hosea: with Gomer -- Within initial U, Gomer, extends left hand to shoulder of Hosea, tonsured, wearing habit of monk, grasping her right hand with his, raising left hand.
Beginning of Hosea.
Nude man, body partially draped, surmounting decorated vertical bar in center margin next to the initial.
In lower margin, three-quarter figure of woman, nimbed, holding palm (?) with each hand within foliate frame flanked by two birds, bills open, biting lower jaws of fantastic animals, each enclosed in medallion of decorated foliate vine. Nude man wearing hat, one holding drapery, sits on back of each animal.
Pen-flourished initial D.