Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Bible
Italy, Padua, ca. 1287-1300
MS M.436 fol. 326v

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Initial:
Three-quarter figure of man, wearing hat, right hand grasping side of initial, within initial M decorated with foliate ornament.
Half figure of man, gesturing with right hand, within initial D decorated with foliate ornament.
Three-quarter figure of man, raising left hand, within initial M decorated with foliate ornament and with foliate extender.
Malachi: preaching, Corruption (?) -- Two men hold wheat sheaves, one touched by one of two other men, tonsured, standing behind draped table or altar on which are three groups of coins.
Scene within initial M decorated with foliate ornament.
Margin:
Gold balls, and vine decorated with balls, foliate ornament and head of fantastic animal.
Beginning of Malachi Prologues I, II, III and Malachi.