Leaf with Initial from a Latin Bible: Initial M: St. Paul with a Sword and a Book

Leaf with Initial from a Latin Bible: Initial M: St. Paul with a Sword and a Book

c. 1220 · Vienna Moralized Bible Workshop (French)

ink, tempera and burnished gold on vellum

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