14th-Century Illuminations for Dante’s Divine Comedy

Check out this Public Domain Review article for more of these gorgeous illustrations: 14th-Century Illuminations for Dante’s Divine Comedy.

You can also see all the manuscript pages at the British Library.

Dante and Virgil witnessing Vanno Fucci, the pillager of a church in Pistoia, being attacked by the monster Cacus, who is half-centaur and half-dragon, and Dante and Virgil speaking to three other souls, tormented by snakes and lizards – British Library