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Saints Barbara, Catherine, Andrew, John the Baptist, Lawrence and Thomas à Beckett in a Historiated Initial "E" from a Missal or Breviary

A work made of manuscript cutting in tempera and gold leaf, with gothica textualis inscriptions in latin in brownish-black and red ink, on parchment.
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  • A work made of manuscript cutting in tempera and gold leaf, with gothica textualis inscriptions in latin in brownish-black and red ink, on parchment.

Date:

1460/70

Artist:

German (Middle Rhineland)

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Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Title

Saints Barbara, Catherine, Andrew, John the Baptist, Lawrence and Thomas à Beckett in a Historiated Initial "E" from a Missal or Breviary

Place

Germany (Artist's nationality:)

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1460–1470

Medium

Manuscript cutting in tempera and gold leaf, with gothica textualis inscriptions in Latin in brownish-black and red ink, on parchment

Dimensions

13.2 × 13.4 cm (5 1/4 × 5 5/16 in.)

Credit Line

The Art Institute of Chicago

Reference Number

1984.564

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