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The Assumption of the Virgin in a Historiated Initial from a Gradual

c. 1500
Manuscript cutting in tempera and gold leaf, with gothica textura inscriptions in Latin in black ink, ruled in red, with red rubrics and other decorations, on parchment
24 × 24.5 cm (9.4 × 9.6 in)

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