Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Literary
France, March 9, 1474
MS G.23 fol. 143r

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Legend, Trojan War: Greeks ships run aground by False Beacons -- Three ships filled with soldiers sail on sea from which rise cliffs whose peaks contain signal fires set by Nauplius and Oeax. One of the ships runs aground on one of the cliffs. Scene in gold frame.