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Nycolaus de Lyra, Postilla super Leviticum, Numeros et Deuteronomium

1397 · 7 pictures

This is a Latin biblical commentary on Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy by Nicholas of Lyra, copied in 1397 in a German-speaking region for scholarly readers. The pictures are pen-and-ink drawings with light colour washes, sketchy and loosely finished, showing bearded figures in long robes, hooded court figures, a seated king with a messenger, and a grim scene of hanging and execution with red-stained wounds; a designer might borrow their loose hatching and marginal, diagram-like composition.

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