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Some little samples from the borders show the lusciousness of the imagery. The triple towered castle in the coat of arms at left indicates the book belonged to Iñigo d'Avalos, Count of Monte Odorisio and Grand Chamberlain of Naples under Ferdinand of Aragon. (That is the kind of scholarly detail you get when you take your examples from The New Palaeographical Society.) | |
| St Augustine's De Civitate Dei, copy from before 1485 from Italy, probably Naples (British Library, add.ms. 15246, f.29). Images from The New Palaeographical Society, 1911. | ||
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