Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Obadiah.
Bologna, Italy, ca. 1270
MS G.38.II, fol. 147r

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Obadiah: prophesying at Edom -- Within initial U, three men stand behind draped table on which is bowl containing fish. Man at left, with right hand extends bowl to raised left hand of Obadiah (?), nimbed, in foreground next to pitcher.
Beginning of Obadiah (Vulg., Abdias).
Two birds perching on decorated horizontal bar in upper margin.
In left margin, nude man wearing hood, holding book or document with both hands, hanging upside on decorated vertical bar.
In lower margin, two medallions of decorated foliate vine, terminating with head or mask of bull, leaf emerging from mouth. Enclosed in the medallions, two confronted men gesturing, one as jurist (?), wearing flat hat on cap, ermine collar, the other wearing cap.
Pen-flourished initial P.