Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Habakkuk.
Bologna, Italy, ca. 1270
MS G.38.II, fol. 151v

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Habakkuk: carried by Angel -- Hand, emerging from arc of Heaven, grasps hair of Habakkuk, carrying on right shoulder, draped pole with hanging pot, within initial O at beginning of Habakkuk.
In center margin, next to the initial, hybrid bird with partial human body, as part of decorated vertical bar.
In lower margin, two medallions of decorated foliate vine enclose three-quarter figures of bishop, wearing miter and chasuble, holding crozier with right hand and book with draped left hand, and tonsured monk holding club (?) with right hand and book with left hand.