Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Bible
Italy, Padua, ca. 1287-1300
MS M.436 fol. 310v

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Initial:
Three-quarter figure of man raising right hand and grasping initial with left hand.
Figure within initial N decorated with foliate ornament and with foliate extenders decorated with gold balls.
Beginning of Minor Prophets, Prologue.
Bust of man, raising left hand and looking up within initial T decorated with foliate ornament.
Beginning of Hosea, Prologue III.
Hosea: with Gomer -- Gomer extends left hand to Hosea, tonsured, who grasps it with his right hand, raisies his left hand and looks back over his right shoulder toward Gomer.
Scene within initial U decorated with foliate ornament and with foliate extenders decorated with gold balls.
Beginning of Hosea.
Margin, center:
Gold balls, and vine decorated with balls and foliate ornament surmounted by hybrid animal with human body, touching the initial U with left hand.