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Royal 19 C IV f. 1v Debate between a clerk and a knight
Debate between a clerk and a knight
Description: Miniature of a debate between a clerk and a knight in a garden, before the king of France and the personifications of Spiritual Power in a Franciscan habit, and Temporal Power represented as a queen, with the author sleeping, at the beginning of the text. 
Origin: France, Central (Paris) 
Attribution: Master of the Bible of Jean de Sy 


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