Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Gospel book
Armenia, Van, 1461
MS M.749 fol. 12v

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Half figure of Eusebius of Caesarea, Palestine, nimbed, right hand raised, roll in left hand, in lunette of architectural frame decorated with foliate and geometric ornament, and surmounted by two peacocks flanking vessel (?) (partly cropped).
In left margin, tree (partly cropped).
Inscription in Armenian in lunette, EUSEBIUS TO CARPIANUS.
Illustration at beginning of Eusebius, Letter to Carpianus.