Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Bible
Italy, Padua, ca. 1287-1300
MS M.436 fol. 262v

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Initial:
Man, gesturing with right hand, holding roll with raised left hand, standing in initial I.
Beginning of Jeremiah, Prologue.
Man, probably Jeremiah, nimbed, raising right hand, holding scroll with left hand, standing in initial U, decorated with foliate ornament.
Left margin:
Gold balls, and vine decorated with balls and foliate ornament terminating in foliate medallion enclosing tonsured monk, with joined hands raised.
Center margin:
Gold balls, and vine decorated with balls and foliate ornament inhabited by man and terminating in foliate medallion enclosing man or woman, orant.
Beginning of Jeremiah.