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Master of the Cypresses

Page from a Choirbook with Christ and a Pharisee in a Historiated Initial “D”

1430/90
Manuscript cutting in tempera and gold leaf, with rounded gothica textualis inscriptions in brownish black ink, ruled in red, on parchment
18 × 21 cm (7.1 × 8.3 in)

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