De civitate Dei - Public domain medieval manuscript

The present manuscript is the only surviving Dutch illustrated copy of the City of God. Though relatively inextensive for a 15th-century Dutch manuscript, the illumination in f. Med. 10 is uncharacteristically luxurious for an Augustinian house; the customary of the Canons required simplicity and a strict, sober aesthetic. The small dragons found throughout the margins of the first three folios -- somewhat out of place in an Augustinian manuscript -- are typical of Utrecht illumination (see Marrow). The miniatures in this manuscript are attributed to the eponymous Master of the Boston City of God, recently tentatively identified by Klaas van der Hoek as Antonis Rogiersz uten Broec (fl. 1460s).

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