Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Miscellany
Italy, Bologna, ca. 1370
MS M.800 fol. 19v

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Magi: Adoration -- Among three Magi, two crowned, the eldest kneels, presenting vessel to extended right hand of Christ Child, cross-nimbed, half nude, seated on lap of Virgin Mary, nimbed, veiled, seated, and raising her right hand.
Scene within initial P with patterened background and decorated with foliate ornament, at beginning of notated Preface at Epiphany.