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MS M.461, fols. 15v–16r

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Livre des merveilles du monde

France, probably Angers
ca. 1460
281 x 220 mm

Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837–1913) in 1911

MS M.461, fols. 15v–16r
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Campania

This complicated image shows a brass statue blowing a trumpet to signal the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius, which stands beside a city guarded by two images of women, old and young.