Pastedown illuminations

Arras Ms. 697
Bibliothèque Municipale d’Arras Ms. 697, folio 482r

All 351 illuminations in this 15th-century manuscript are painted on thin paper, then cut out and pasted into the proper (and numbered) locations. A slight shadow on the left edge of this illumination (#350) shows that it is lifting off of the page.

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