Praying Saint (Moses?) with Christ in a Historiated Initial "L", from a Choirbook

Praying Saint (Moses?) with Christ in a Historiated Initial "L", from a Choirbook

c. 1300 · Italy

Manuscript cutting in tempera and gold leaf, with gothica textura inscriptions in light black ink, verso, ruled in red, on parchment

Art Institute of Chicago · Medieval (500–1500) · CC0 · Gift of Dr. Frank W. Gunsaulus

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