Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Bible
England, perhaps Oxford, ca. 1265
MS G.42 fol. 395r

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Man, nude, kneeling, right hand at breast, left hand holding left ankle with hook (?) with head turned back to look at left foot, is against blue patterned background within initial P decorated with marginal extensions containing foliate ornament.
Beginning of Interpretation of Hebrew Names, P.