Adoration of the Shepherds, ca. 1500, Tempera and gold on parchment, 9 5/8 x 6 in. (24. 4 x 15. 2 cm), Manuscripts and Illuminations, Francesco di Marco Marmitta da Parma (Emilian, 1457?1505), Essentially a small painting on parchment, this image appears to have been created as an independent object for private devotion. According to a letter of 1591 formerly pasted onto its reverse, which refers to it as a 'tablet, ' the miniature once belonged to the Medici pope Clement VII (r