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Initial showing a man and a woman kneeling on the left, on the right the Virgin stands resting a book on an altar.

Decoration accompanying the opening of Wace's La Conception. (Left) initial showing a man and a woman kneeling on the left, on the right the Virgin stands resting a book on an altar. (Below) decoration from the lower margin showing a goat eating a tree, and a man with a crossbow shooting at a pig holding a distaff and spindle. From f.1r of MS B.9, a collection of French works (France, second quarter of the 14th century).

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Grotesques from lower margin showing a goat eating a tree, and a man with a crossbow shooting at a pig holding a distaff and spindle.
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