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Book of Hours
England, ca. 1480
MS M.238 fol. 50r

Christ: Presentation -- In foliate initial D, nude Christ Child reclines on altar surrounded by Virgin Mary, veiled with wimple (?), Joseph the Carpenter, and Simeon of Jerusalem as bishop.

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