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Italy, Ferrara, ca. 1461
MS M.227 fol. 101r

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In floreate initial D, bier draped with pall inscribed with three crosses, on which is skull, rays as cross nimbus.
Margins decorated with border of floreate and scrollwork ornament inhabited by skull, woodpecker and two monkeys, one backturned, all in roundels of vine.



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