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Manuscript Cutting

ca. 1450 (made)

Cut-out decorated initial E; Netherlands (North); ca 1450

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Cut-out decorated initial E; Netherlands (North); ca 1450
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Data taken from notes compiled by Rowan Watson. The full text of the entry is as follows:

'2922 (MS 273)
LETTER E
Cut-out decorated initial E (burnished gold letter-shape with blue pattern design floriate decoration reserved in green and red inks with four daffodil trumpets)

NL (North) . c. 1450
msd; initial 90 x 90 mm.
Some Hufnagel notation visible

Pub: 1908 cat, 31'
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2922

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