Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Amos.
Bologna, Italy, ca. 1270
MS G.38.II, fol. 144v

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Amos: as Shepherd -- Amos, decorated nimbus, holding scroll with left hand, extending pedum with right hand to one of two sheep. All within initial U at beginning of Amos.
Parrot perched on decorated horizontal bar in upper margin.
In center margin, partial figure of man, holding flower or leaf with left hand, as atlante, supporting vase with head, in decorated vertical bar next to the initial.
In lower margin, two medallions of decorated foliate vine, enclosing two half-figures of male saints, decorated nimbi, each holding book, one open, one with draped hands.