Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Poetic miscellany
England, between 1250 and 1299
MS M.761 fol. 17r

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Scene, Secular: Instruction -- Cleric wearing hood, seated on chair before lectern, raising left hand to face and indicating with right hand cleric opposite, tonsured, raising right hand. Figures in initial O on gold background.
In right margin, front half of deer (stag) emerging from hole. Below, small monk, tonsured, wearing habit, joined hands raised, facing and looking up at larger man wearing cap, raising hands.