Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Hungarian Anjou legendary single leaves
Bologna, Italy, or Hungary, 1325-1335
M.360.25

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Zone 1:
1) Gregory the Great: Scene, aiding Poor (?) -- Gregory the Great, nimbed, wearing papal tiara, raises right hand and with left hand grasps right hand of woman, veiled, holding staff in left hand, seated or kneeling beside six figures, including woman, veiled, man with bandaged head, and man wearing hood.
2) Gregory the Great: Scene, killing Sabinianus -- Gregory the Great, nimbed, wearing papal tiara, raises right hand in blessing before Pope Sabinianus, wearing miter and reclining with head on pillow before curtain suspended from rod.
Zone 2:
3) Gregory the Great: Scene, killing Sabinianus -- Gregory the Great, nimbed, wearing papal tiara, raises club over Pope Sabinianus, wearing miter, bleeding from forehead, reclining in bed before curtain.
4) Gregory the Great: Scene, killing Sabinianus -- Two clerics, tonsured, one with right hand raised to head, sit behind dead body of Pope Sabinianus, blood streaming from head and body, miter fallen from head, reclining in bed before two devils, facing one another before curtain suspended within architectural setting.
Scenes in frames decorated with foliate ornament.