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Fol. 364r, Haggai, historiated initial I, Haggai with a scroll standing on a hybrid

Cleveland Museum of Art

Open book with yellowed pages. Two columns of black text. Red and blue lines separate columns. Top of page has red and blue decorative letters spelling out 'HAGGAI'. A large decorative initial 'I' on the left side of the page. Initial is blue, gold and orange. A historiated initial depicts a man in orange and blue with a gold scroll standing on a hybrid creature which has the body of a lion and the tail of an eagle. The page number '364' is written in the top right corner.

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