Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Haggai.
Bologna, Italy, ca. 1270
MS G.38.II, fol. 154r

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Haggai, decorated nimbus, holding roll with raised left hand, standing within initial I at beginning of Haggai (Vulg., Aggeus).
Fantastic animal as atlante below the initial.
Two confronted men, wearing caps, holding books, enclosed in two medallions of decorated foliate vine in lower margin.
Pen-flourished initial I