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English from the Abbey of Great Missenden

Speculum Humanae Salvationis

1382/1406
Manuscript with 111 folios and many drawings in pen and brown and red inks, a few with tempera, and some traced in graphite, with other decorations and Latin inscriptions in Anglicana formata in brownish black and red ink, ruled in red, on vellum, bound in oak boards with worn sheepskin covers, missing chain and clasps from upper cover
26 × 18.5 cm (10.2 × 7.3 in)

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