BISHOP SAINT, probably ST BONIFACE, miniature by the MASTER OF MONZA on a cutting from a Lives of the Saints , in Latin, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM
BISHOP SAINT, probably ST BONIFACE, miniature by the MASTER OF MONZA on a cutting from a Lives of the Saints , in Latin, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM [Lombardy, c.1280-85]72 x 62mm. The saint holding a crozier and standing before a tower, with an accompanying initial 'B'. Remnants of seven lines of fragmentary text in a gothic hand on verso (slight losses of pigment to green garment and white crozier). Card mount. The text on the reverse comes from a passage early on in the life of St Erasmus ('Post hac iubente [angelo ad civ]itatem suam rediit', CLXXXVIII, 5) in Bartholomew of Trent's Liber epilogorum ; this miniature, bearing the initial 'B', must therefore have been intended to illustrate the following life, that of St Boniface.
BISHOP SAINT, probably ST BONIFACE, miniature by the MASTER OF MONZA on a cutting from a Lives of the Saints , in Latin, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM
BISHOP SAINT, probably ST BONIFACE, miniature by the MASTER OF MONZA on a cutting from a Lives of the Saints , in Latin, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM [Lombardy, c.1280-85]72 x 62mm. The saint holding a crozier and standing before a tower, with an accompanying initial 'B'. Remnants of seven lines of fragmentary text in a gothic hand on verso (slight losses of pigment to green garment and white crozier). Card mount. The text on the reverse comes from a passage early on in the life of St Erasmus ('Post hac iubente [angelo ad civ]itatem suam rediit', CLXXXVIII, 5) in Bartholomew of Trent's Liber epilogorum ; this miniature, bearing the initial 'B', must therefore have been intended to illustrate the following life, that of St Boniface.
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