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Chansonnier provençal
Italy
ca. 1285–1300
263 x 194 mm
MS M.819
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Lower Margin:
At left, candle; personification of sun looking down at flowering plant.
Christ: Crucifixion -- Christ, nimbed, wearing loincloth, is affixed with four (?) nails to cross with blank titulus and suppadaneum. Virgin Mary, nimbed and veiled, holding draped hands to face stands at left. At left, poet, hands raised, kneels looking up toward Christ.
Text of poem by Folquet de Marseille (Folquet de Marselha).
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Photography by Pixel Acuity