Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Joshua, Prologue II.
Bologna, Italy, ca. 1270
MS G.38.I, fol. 084v

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Initial I enclosing man wearing flat black hat at beginning of Jerome's prologue to Joshua.
Moses: Death and Joshua: communicating with God -- In lower register of initial E, nude Moses, pearled nimbus, eyes closed, body draped, reclines on mattress. Above, bust of Christ-Logos, crossed nimbus, extending right hand in blessing, looks toward Joshua, raising right hand toward Christ-Logos, gesturing with left hand toward Moses.
Beginning of Joshua.
Enclosed in medallions in upper margin, two birds, possibly blackbirds.
In center margin, grotesque man, wearing hood, blowing horn from which issues decorative, knotted rod, holding roll (?) with right hand, body terminating in curl.
In lower margin, two birds, wings spread, perching on decorated foliate vine, flanked by two half-figures of men, pearled nimbi, one tonsured, both gesturing with right hands, both holding books with left hands, one hand draped.