Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Bible
Italy, Padua, ca. 1287-1300
MS M.436 fol. 59r

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Initial:
Moses: teaching -- Moses, extends left hand and looks toward two men, looking toward him.
Scene within initial decorated with foliate ornament and with foliate extenders inhabited by.
Margin, center:
Female figure, raising right hand and touching initial with left hand, stands atop foliate bar.
Margin, lower:
Bull enclosed in foliage at termination of foliate bar.
Beginning of Deuteronomy.