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Saint Francis in a Historiated Initial "P"

1375/99
Manuscript cutting in tempera and gold leaf, with incising, on vellum, with inscriptions in black or brown-black ink, verso
13.6 × 13.4 cm (5.4 × 5.3 in)

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