Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Vitae patrum
Italy, Naples, between 1350 and 1375
MS M.626 fol. 33v

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John of Lycopolis: Scene, discovering Clerk among Visitors -- John of Lycopolis, nimbed, wearing hooded monk’s habits, with left hand on tau-staff and with right hand extended toward group of men, two hooded, one with sword tied to waist, gesturing.
Scene in landscape amid trees.
Illustration of Rufinus of Aquileia, Historia Monachorum in Aegypto, Chapter 1.