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Annunciation to the Virgin (fol. 86v)

[ca. 1490 and ca. 1500-1510]

The miniature depicts the angel Gabriel announcing the birth of Christ to the Virgin Mary. Gabriel holds a sceptre and wears a coronet with a cross. Mary kneels by a small altar, under a green canopy....

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