Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Histoire universelle depuis la Création jusqu’a César
France, ca. 1390-1400
MS M.516 fol. 114r

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Legend, City of Rome: Romulus and Remus in Tiber River -- In landscape setting, on bank of river, are she-wolf, rabbit, four sheep (?), two swaddled infants, reclining on ground, and man, wearing hood and holding pedum in left hand. Illustration of Book 7, History of Rome I (Founding of Rome).