Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Bible
England, perhaps Oxford, ca. 1265
MS G.42 fol. 190v

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Song of Solomon: Illustration -- Male figure raises right hand toward Personification of Church, crowned, with right hand placing chalice on draped altar beneath baldachino, and raising her left hand.
Scene on blue patterned background within initial O.
Beginning of Song of Solomon (Vulg., Canticle of Canticles).