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Master of Jacques de Besançon

The Birth of the Virgin in a Historiated Initial "G" from an Antiphonal

c. 1500
Manuscript cutting in tempera and gold leaf, with gothica textualis inscriptions in black, ruled in red, on parchment
16 × 16.8 cm (6.3 × 6.6 in)

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