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

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

1330/40 · Italy

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

Art Institute of Chicago · Medieval (500–1500) · CC0 · Gift of Gregor Aheron

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