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Breviary
Hungary, Budapest, 1481
MS G.7 fol. 104v

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Christ: Resurrection -- Christ, nimbed, partially draped in mantle, showing wounds, stands with right hand raised in blessing and holds in left hand cross-staff with cross-inscribed banner. Figure in decorated initial A.
Margins with Italianate white-vine (bianchi giari) ornament and interlace motifs. In medallion in lower margin is escutcheon with arms of Domonkos Kálmáncsehi (or, a lion demi rampant gules, in base azure, a star of six points or), surmounted by a jeweled miter with infulae, all emanating rays.



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