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Original: 1470 -90 Illumination on parchment Biblioth?que Nationale, Paris The codex was executed for Louis Laval de Chatillon, a French nobleman by the workshop of Jean Colombe (1440-93). It contains the representations of the twelve sibyls and more than a thousand miniatures. This page represents the Eryhtrean Sibyl. The white rose is the symbol of the Annunciation, since - according to tradition - this sibyl previewed the birth of Christ. , MINIATURIST, French , Book of Prayers , 1451-1500 , French , illumination , religious
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