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Fol-24v Evangelist St. Mark with his attribute, a lion at his side.

Evangelist St. Mark with his attribute, a lion at his side. The desperate monk in the scriptorium had neither a good pattern book for depicting a lion, nor had he ever seen a lion himself in his life..

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Horae ad usum Romanum, dites Grandes Heures d'Anne de Bretagne

Jean Bourdichon (1457? - 1521) Enlumineur

Source: BNF Latin 9474 - gallica.bnf.fr

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Uploaded on May 19, 2022