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History of ancient, early Christian, and mediaeval painting (1906)

Woltmann, Alfred Friedrich Gottfried Albert, 1841-1880, Woermann, Karl, 1844-1933 · New York : Dodd, Mead & Co. · leaf 327

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-. At the end of the text is a picture of the monkIlcldcbcrt at his writing-desk (which is in the shape »t a lion , turning POUnd 2 (> c 29S HISTORY OF PAINTING. with his pen stuck behind his ear, to throw something at a mouse which ismunching at his dinner-table, and in the book which lies open… … Fig. 82. written this curse, Wicked mouse, provoking me again and again to anger,may God destroy thee! (Pessime mus, septus me provecas ad iram, ut te densperdat). At his feet sits a young man, Everwinus, drawing an ornament forillumination. This is an interesting pictorial addition to whimsical…

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