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Burney 3
f. 392
Illuminated initial
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| Description: |
Illuminated historiated initial 'F' at the beginning of II Maccabees of a uncertain scene, but perhaps of Antiochus and his men in the temple of Nanea, and beheading the leader of the priests (II Macc. 1:13-16), with a soldier wearing a thirteenth-century style helmet. |
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England, S. E. (Canterbury?) |
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