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France, Langres, ca. 1465
MS G.55 fol. 44v

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Virgin Mary: Visitation -- Virgin Mary, nimbed, and Elizabeth, nimbed, wearing wimpled veil, embrace. Above in starry sky, rays emerge from sun (?). Scene in landscape with trees, bushes and rocky outcrops. In background, buildings, city and stream with swan.
Margins decorated with floreate ornament inhabited by owl and two rabbits. In lower margin, overpainted, unidentified heraldic shield (quarterly, or and gules).



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