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Master of the Dominican Effigies

Female Saint in a Historiated Initial "L" from a Choir Book

1330/40
Manuscript cutting in tempera and gold leaf, with gothica textura inscriptions in Latin in black ink, ruled in red, on parchment
15.6 × 16.2 cm (6.1 × 6.4 in)

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