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Illuminated initial and border incorporating trumpeters, dragons and coats of arms

Illuminated initial and borders from f.49v of MS A.4(II), the Liber Sextus Decretalium of Boniface VIII, with gloss of Johannes Monachus (English, c. 1335-50). The historiated initial depicts a priest at an altar, and a cleric in white repulsing a man. The borders incorporate dragons, a trumpeter, and shields bearing the arms of Mortimer(?) and Manners, Baldwin.

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