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Fac-simile of Ornamental Letters, from a French MS of the Thirteenth Century, in the British Museum
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Department of Drawings
Fine Arts Department Harvard University Cambridge MA; transferred to Fogg Art Museum 1926.
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Title: Fac-simile of Ornamental Letters, from a French MS of the Thirteenth Century, in the British Museum
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