Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Bible
England, perhaps Oxford, ca. 1265
MS G.42 fol. 63r

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Male figure, nude, partially covered with mantle, holds sword, with his right hand, behind his head, beheading lion.
Figures on blue patterned background within initial T with animal head, decorated with short extension containing foliate ornament.
Beginning of Joshua, Prologue.