Medieval Manuscripts and Art

Illuminated pages from medieval texts, featuring intricate designs, vibrant colors, and religious themes, reflecting historical craftsmanship.

Publisher: Charles le Vigoureux, French, 1547-1605, Dieu arreste Jeremie pour Prophete, & luy faict voir un pot bouillant & une verge dAmandier fleurie. (God calls Jeremiah to be a Prophet and shows him a boiling pot and a branch of a flowering almond tree. Jeremiah 1), no. 1, The Story of Jeremiah, ca. 1580, Woodcut with hand-coloring and stencil, Sheet: Approximately 36 × 48 cm (14 3/16 × 18 7/8in.), Made in France, French, 16th century, Works on Paper - Prints

Decorated Incipit Page. Date/Period: 1615. Folio. Tempera colors, gold paint, and gold leaf on glazed paper. Height: 230 mm (9.05 in); Width: 171 mm (6.73 in). Author: UNKNOWN.

Saint Anthony Giving his Belongings to the Poor, Anthony Tormented by Demons, Anthony Burying Paul in the Desert, The Death and Burial of Saint Anthony; Master of the Brussels Romuléon or workshop, Flemish, active about 1465; Brussels (probaby), Belgium, Europe; about 1465 - 1470; Tempera colors, gold leaf, gold paint, and ink on parchment; Leaf: 24.8 x 17.6 cm (9 3/4 x 6 15/16 in.), Justification: 15.6 x 10.8 cm (6 1/8 x 4 1/4 in.)

Bacchus, Roman God of wine, mosaic pavement, Roman

Mock Embroidered Picture (Italy); silk, metal threads, paper

Design for a grave monument in the cathedral in Metz. Design for a grave monument in the Choir Chapel of the Cathedral in Metz, with the resurrection of Christ and two founders.

MTI1-CANTIGA STA MARIA Nº65-F97R-VIRGEN ABSUELVE AL QUE ANDUVO EXCOMULGADO Y SE FINGE LOCO-S XIII. Author: ALFONSO X EL SABIO (1221-1284). Location: MONASTERIO-BIBLIOTECA-COLECCION. SAN LORENZO DEL ESCORIAL. MADRID. SPAIN.

CODICE LANDAU - SIGLO XV - TARDO GOTICO. Author: BELBELLO DA PAVIA (S XV). Location: BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL COLECCIÓN. Florenz. ITALIA.

Publisher: Charles le Vigoureux, French, 1547-1605, Dieu arreste Jeremie pour Prophete, & luy faict voir un pot bouillant & une verge dAmandier fleurie. (God calls Jeremiah to be a Prophet and shows him a boiling pot and a branch of a flowering almond tree. Jeremiah 1), no. 1, The Story of Jeremiah, ca. 1580, Woodcut with hand-coloring and stencil, Sheet: Approximately 36 × 48 cm (14 3/16 × 18 7/8in.), Made in France, French, 16th century, Works on Paper - Prints

MTI1-CANTIGA STA MARIA 23-F35V-MUJER HOSPEDA AL REY Y VIRGEN ACRECIENTA EL VINO DE LA BODEGA-S XIII. Author: ALFONSO X EL SABIO (1221-1284). Location: MONASTERIO-BIBLIOTECA-COLECCION. SAN LORENZO DEL ESCORIAL. MADRID. SPAIN.

Depicts Saint Wolfgang, created anonymously between 1450-1460 as a colored woodcut. The work shows the saint with attributes such as a bishop's staff and mitre.

MTI1 - CANTIGA DE SANTA MARIA Nº1 - F6R - LOOR A SANTA MARIA RECORDANDO LOS SIETE GOZOS DE SU HIJO - SIGLO XIII. Author: ALFONSO X OF CASTILE. Location: MONASTERIO-BIBLIOTECA-COLECCION, SAN LORENZO DEL ESCORIAL, MADRID, SPAIN.

MTI1 - CANTIGA DE SANTA MARIA Nº16 - 28V - LA VIRGEN CONVIERTE A UN CABALLERO ENAMORADO QUE NO LLEGABA A SU AMADA - SIGLO XIII. Author: ALFONSO X EL SABIO (1221-1284). Location: MONASTERIO-BIBLIOTECA-COLECCION. SAN LORENZO DEL ESCORIAL. MADRID. SPAIN.

Inhabited Initial B; Unknown; Montecassino, Italy, Europe; 1153; Tempera colors, gold leaf, gold paint, and ink on parchment; Leaf: 19.2 x 13.2 cm (7 9/16 x 5 3/16 in.)

MTI1-CANTIGA STA MARIA Nº32-F47V-OBISPO EXCOMULGA CLERIGO POR NO DECIR SU MISA-MINIATURA S XIII. Author: ALFONSO X EL SABIO (1221-1284). Location: MONASTERIO-BIBLIOTECA-COLECCION. SAN LORENZO DEL ESCORIAL. MADRID. SPAIN.

Lustration of Jina Neminatha, Folio from a Kalpasutra (Book of Sacred Precepts) Manuscript. India, Madhya Pradesh, Mandu, 1439. Drawings; watercolors. Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

Murals in the cloister surrounding the courtyard of the monastery Santiago Apostol built in the 16th century by the Spanish in order to convert the Mixtec and Zapotec people in Cuilapan de Guerrero near Zaachila near Oaxaca City, Mexico.

Miniature from a Pontifical, 11th Century.

Decorated Incipit Page. Date/Period: Ca. 1120 - 1140. Folio. Tempera colors, gold, and silver on parchment. Height: 229 mm (9.01 in); Width: 165 mm (6.49 in). Author: UNKNOWN.

Panel, Medium: silk and metallic embroidery, linen foundation Technique: embroidered in satin, outline and counted stitches, Panel of linen embroidered in silk and metallic thread showing a central escutcheon framed by a laurel wreath. Above the escutcheon are the raised initials PPS and ACU in silver thread over padding. Smaller wreath in the lower left hand corner embroidered in silver thread with the following motto: La Beauté Vertu L'Honneur Flambequx D'Un Grand Coeur. At the lower right corner: Coeur Et Courage Font L'Ouvrage. Outer border pattern shows large floral sprays., France, 18th century, embroidery & stitching, Panel

EJECUTORIA DE HIDALGUIA A JUAN CESPEDES. Location: ARCHIVO DE LA CHANCILLERIA. Valladolid. SPAIN.

Pokhvala rozge.. Rovinski, D. A. (Dmitri Aleksandrovich), 1824-1895. Prints. 1881. Rare Book Division. Folk art , Russia (Federation), Russia , Social life and customs, Engraving, Russian

Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis Unknown. Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis, ca. 1425-1460. Manuscript in opaque watercolor and ink with gold, book: 8 × 5 3/4 × 2 3/8 in. (20.3 × 14.6 cm). European Art ca. 1425-1460

Canon Table Page; T'oros Roslin, Armenian, active 1256 - 1268; Hromklay, Armenia, Asia; 1256; Tempera and gold paint on parchment; Leaf: 26.5 x 19 cm (10 7/16 x 7 1/2 in.)

Workshop of Master of the Aachen Madonna, Emperor Octavian and the Sibyl, c. 1480, metalcut, hand-colored in green, light rose, and yellow

Saint Catherine of Alexandria, from the 'Legenda di Sancta Caterina' (Modena, Richizola, 1490). Artist: Anonymous, Italian. Dimensions: Sheet: 7 13/16 × 5 5/16 in. (19.8 × 13.5 cm). Publisher: Richizola. Date: ca. 1490.Reproduced in D. Fava: "Tipografia Modenese," Gutenberg Jarbuch (1929): 164-185.Nicoletta da Modena has been suggested as the author of this print for which there is no basis. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

MS B.R.20 - CANTIGA DE SANTA MARIA Nº207 - F19R - CABALLERO APRESA ASESINO DE SU HIJO Y LO LIBERA - SIGLO XIII. Author: Alfonso X of Castile. Location: BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL COLECCIÓN. Florenz. ITALIA.

The Betrayal. Dated: c. 1470/1480. Medium: metalcut, hand-colored in yellow, red-brown lake, and green. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: German 15th Century.

David with His Foot in a Noose in an Initial O. Artist: Domenico Morone (Italian, Verona ca. 1442-ca. 1518 Verona). Dimensions: 7 3/8 x 6 1/8 in. (18.7 x 15.5cm)Initial Ground: 6 1/4 x 6 3/16 in. (15.8 x 15.7cm). Date: ca. 1500.Initial O introducing the Introit (opening chant) to the Mass for the third Sunday of Lent, Psalm 24:15: Oculi mei semper ad Dominumquia ipse ellevet de laqueopedesmeos, "My eyes are ever toward the Lord, for he shall pluck my feet out of the snare."This vibrantly colored initial portrays David holding the end of a noose around his foot while looking toward heaven to the hand of God. It is among a small group of miniatures by the Veronese painter Domenico Morone and belonged to an unidentified choir book known as a gradual that was likely made for a Franciscan monastery, perhaps San Bernardino di Verona. Domenico is known primarily for his panel paintings and large-scale frescoes for churches in the Veneto. His hard, linear style, sculpturesque figures, plastic

Christ Child with Instruments of the Passion. Artist: Anonymous. Dimensions: Sheet: 3 3/4 x 2 3/4 in. (9.5 x 7 cm). Date: ca. 1550-1650.The name lettered on the print 'I. P. Peruet' cannot be identified at this time. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Saint Ottilia. Dated: c. 1480. Medium: woodcut in brown, hand-colored in black, green, red, yellow, blue, gold, and orange. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: German 15th Century.

CANTIGA DE SANTA MARIA Nº228 - F112R - LA VIRGEN DE TERENA CURA A UN MULO CON LAS PATAS AGARROTADAS - SIGLO XIII. Author: Alfonso X of Castile. Location: BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL COLECCIÓN. Florenz. ITALIA.

Decorated Incipit Page; Malnazar, Armenian, active about 1630s, and Aghap'ir; Isfahan, Persia, Asia; 1637 - 1638; Tempera colors, gold paint, and gold leaf on parchment; Leaf: 25.2 x 18.3 cm (9 15/16 x 7 3/16 in.)

Theater with staff personification (fortitudo), 1578. Scene with personification of the power (fortitudo). On the opposite page a cartouche with the verse that stood above the scene. Theater performance during the arrival of Matthias in Brussels, January 18, 1578.

Blazon of Cardinal Albrecht von Brandenburg. Simon Bening (Flemish, about 1483 - 1561)

Paul Nash, 1889-1946, British, Design for a bookplate for Kenneth Fitzpatrick Mackenzie, ca. 1909. Pen and black ink, black chalk, graphite, and gouache on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper.

Canon Table Page. Date/Period: 1256. Folio. Tempera and gold paint on parchment. Height: 265 mm (10.43 in); Width: 190 mm (7.48 in). Author: T'oros Roslin.

Marriage Contract. Date/Period: 1818. Ceremonial Art-Paper & Parchment. Ink, watercolor, and gold paint on paper Ink, watercolor, and gold paint on paper. Height: 1,003 mm (39.48 in); Width: 889 mm (35 in). Author: UNKNOWN ARTIST.

An aristocratic lady winches her lover up to her window. Date: Medieval

Drawing, Painted ceiling; Italy

MTI1-CANTIGA STA MARIA Nº26-F40V-DIABLO SE LLEVA ALMA DE PEREGRINO DE SANTIAGO-MINIAT S XIII. Author: ALFONSO X EL SABIO (1221-1284). Location: MONASTERIO-BIBLIOTECA-COLECCION. SAN LORENZO DEL ESCORIAL. MADRID. SPAIN. Apóstol Santiago el Mayor.

Playing cards, Partial set of Italian Minchiate playing cards, Europe, 17th century, toys & games, Playing cards

A woman killing her own child, miniature from Magnus Eriksson's National Law in the Codex Aboensis, manuscript, 1450, Sweden.

Songs of Innocence and of Experience: Little Boy Lost. Artist: William Blake (British, London 1757-1827 London). Dimensions: sheet: 6 3/16 x 5 9/16 in. (15.7 x 14.1 cm). Date: ca. 1825. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Portrait of Ptolemy, Geography, c. 1453. Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, Cod. Giovanni Rhosos; copist for Cardinal Bessarion. Frontispiece of Ptolemy's Geographica showing Claudius Ptolemy in a Palace with books

El yugo y las flechas. Escudo de los reyes católicos.

Tile Panel 16th-17th century. Tile Panel 447623

Ecce Homo. Dated: c. 1440/1450. Medium: woodcut, with contemporary hand-coloring. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: German 15th Century.

LIBRO DE LOS CABALLEROS DE LA ORDEN DE SANTIAGO - 1361 - FOLIO 51 V - BOCANEGRA - MIRANDA. Location: ARCHIVO MUNICIPAL. BURGOS. SPAIN. BOCANEGRA FRANCISCO. MIRANDA JUAN DE.

Korsunskiia vrata (Corsun gates), depicted in a watercolor by Acad. F. Solntsev. This is an illustration from a chromolithography printed by F. Dreher, produced between 1849 and 1853 in Moscow. The artwork is a chromolithograph published by Tip. A. Semena and showcases Russian art

Civil Vitrail Drawing: Chevreuse - Border M and Border of Saint-Gervais Prosper Lafaye (1806-1883). Drawing of stained glass: Chevreuse - Border m and border of Saint-Gervais, between 1845 and 1875.

Illuminated initial capital letter from the Code of Queen Costance, Greek manuscript, 12th Century.

Cheese production miniature from the Tacuinum Sanitatis (The Medieval Health Handbook), 14th Century.

Album n � 1. Stained glass project for Bale Cathedrale: Nativity Gsell-Laurent workshop. Album n � 1. Stained glass project for Basel Cathedral: Nativity. Pencil and gouache on layer paper.

A red chalk drawing by Baldassare Franceschini depicting a wall grave or epitaph of a knight with a font cartridge, and a sarcophagus with curved sides.

MTI1-CANTIGA STA MARIA Nº130-F184R-LOOR A SANTA MARIA-SIGLO XIII-MINIATURA GOTICA. Author: ALFONSO X EL SABIO (1221-1284). Location: MONASTERIO-BIBLIOTECA-COLECCION. SAN LORENZO DEL ESCORIAL. MADRID. SPAIN.

Letters from an illuminated alphabet, man with legs of a lion, a dragon with a man's head, etc., from manuscripts in the Bibliotheque Nationale de France, 15397, 13091.. Ernest Guillot "Ornementation des Manuscrits au Moyen-Age" (Ornamentation from Manuscripts of the Middle Ages), 1897, chromolithograph.

Initial letter 'O', 14th century, (1843).Artist: Henry Shaw

Fourth style mosaic of wall panel depicting candelabrum and hunting putto, surrounded by braided motifs, from Pompei

COMENTARIOS AL APOCALIPSIS - SIGLO XI - FOLIO 102 R. Author: BEATO DE LIEBANA. Location: CATEDRAL-BIBLIOTECA. BURGO DE OSMA. Soria. SPAIN.

German 15th Century, Ecce Homo, c 1440 1450 Ecce Homo

MS B.R.20- CANTIGA STA MARIA Nº204-F39R-STO DOMINGO PIDE A LA VIRGEN POR LA CURACION DE ARCEDIANO-S. Author: ALFONSO X EL SABIO (1221-1284). Location: BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL COLECCIÓN. Florenz. ITALIA. SANTO DOMINGO DE GUZMÁN (1170-1221).

Cabinet of Modes or New Modes, January 15, 1786, 5th notebook, PL. II.SKY BED

Majel G Claflin, Retablo San Christopher, 1935 1942 Retablo - San Christopher

Casulla procedente de la Capilla de Sant Jordi, siglo XVI. Museu del Disseny de Barcelona.

Textile Fragment Depicting Figures in a Landscape dated A.H. 1008/A.D. 1599-1600 This textile fragment depicts a kneeling servant offering a bowl of fruit to a man standing beside a tree. The idealized scene of figures in a landscape setting was popularized by illustrations to Safavid poetic anthologies, and were emulated by textile designers. The black outlining of the figures and other motifs (including the wine cup containing a date, A.H. 1008/A.D. 1599-1600, and signature, Husain) create a graphic quality akin to line drawing.. Textile Fragment Depicting Figures in a Landscape 444977

Cutting from a gradual. Taddeo Crivelli (Italian, died about 1479, active about 1451 - 1479)

Two Landscapes with Dog, Putti, Rat, Cat, and Urn Border, folio 41 (recto), from Florilegium (A Book of Flower Studies), 1608. France. Watercolor, ink, silver and gold over occasional traces of pencil, on vellum; sheet: 31.1 x 20.2 cm (12 1/4 x 7 15/16 in.).

Design for glass painting in the house of S. de Swart and Em. van Kerckhoff in Laren: Fortuna Comes., Fortuna Comes, draughtsman: Antoon Derkinderen, 1869 - 1925, paper, brush, h 152 mm × w 125 mm

'Kesler - von Diesbach Wedding Stained Glass'. Switzerland, 1678. Dimensions: 33,5x21,5 cm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg. Author: Unknown master from Freiburg.

Ontwerp van een schrijfvoorbeeld: A Mons. Jean vande Veke (...). Spieghel der schrijfkonste (series title). Dating: 1605. Place: Rotterdam. Measurements: h 202 mm × w 304 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Author: Jan van de Velde (I) (mentioned on object). Johan van der Veken (mentioned on object).

Textile Fragment

Decorated Initial "G" with Flowers from a Choir Book. European. Date: 1300-1399. Dimensions: 68 × 73 mm. Manuscript cutting in tempera and gold leaf on vellum. Origin: Europe. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

Horae, fol. 66., Approx. 1500. Books of hours, illumination of books and manuscripts

The Miracle of the Gadarene Swine. Date/Period: Ca. 1000. Detached leaf. Tempera colors, gold leaf, and ink on parchment. Height: 313 mm (12.32 in); Width: 181 mm (7.12 in). Author: UNKNOWN.

manuscrito iluminado, siglo XVII, Constantinopla, Fundación Calouste Gulbenkian, («Fundaçío Calouste Gulbenkian»), Lisboa, Portugal.

Canto del Oficio de Difuntos. Oficio de Difuntos Maitines. The Black Hours Ms M.493- fols. 98V-99R.

Schembart Buch, Schembard Büch, Anonymous, 16th century, Leaves 2r-4r: historical account of the civic festival of the Nuremberg Schembartlauf. Watercolors of 64 Schembartlaüfe or runners for the years 1449-1539, each with a heraldic device and described on the facing leaf; watercolors of 20 floats named Hölle, or Hell.

Illumination depicting the Story of Saint Bruno and the Grande Chartreuse from the Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry (The Beautiful Hours) an early 15th-century illuminated manuscript book of hours. Dated 15th Century

Fragment (From an Orphrey Band) Made 1400-1450 England. Linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk and gilt-metal-silk-wrapped silk in split and stem stitches; laid work and couching. .

Stele of Imenyseneb (2123-2040 BC), Egyptian painted limestone section from a Stella (stele). Imenyseneb is served by his wife under the protective symbol of the Wedjet eye. Imenyseneb was chief of expeditions for the royal court of the Pharaoh.

Netherlands, Maria with Child on the crescent moon, verso - stamped, Maria with the Christ Child in her arms standing on the crescent moon. An ornamental border to the left, right and above the image., print, prints, height 69 mm, width 43 mm, print maker, printmaker, 1500 - 1550, paper, papier, engraving, engraving (printing process)

Pa. German Birth Certificate. Dated: c. 1937. Dimensions: overall: 43.3 x 53.4 cm (17 1/16 x 21 in.) Original IAD Object: 16"wide, 13" high. Medium: watercolor, colored pencil, and graphite on paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Elmer G. Anderson.

Sampler, Medium: silk embroidery on wool Technique: embroidery on plain weave, Verse, landscape with two houses, trees with birds, sheep on lawn and scattered flower and tree motifs surrounded by an angular border., England, ca. 1820, embroidery & stitching, Sampler

Segmentum from a Tunic, 800 - 850. Egypt, late Abbasid period, first half of the 9th century. Tapestry weave; wool and linen; overall: 18.3 x 19.1 cm (7 3/16 x 7 1/2 in.).

Cabinet of fashion and taste 1791, p. 227: Your your de Normandie, anonymous, 1791 Haarlem paper etching Haarlem paper etching

Cylinder Vessel with Flowers and Dedication Text

The herb theoderis To be ground and drunk with wine, cures respiritory illness (asthma)

Songs of Innocence and of Experience: On Anothers Sorrow. Artist: William Blake (British, London 1757-1827 London). Dimensions: sheet: 6 3/16 x 5 9/16 in. (15.7 x 14.1 cm). Date: ca. 1825. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Eight of swords, in: waist of cards for WIST. National Card Factory J.C. du Porta

COMENTARIOS AL APOCALIPSIS. Author: BEATO DE LIEBANA. Location: ARCHIVO HISTORICO NACIONAL-COLECCION. MADRID. SPAIN.

DAVID TOCANDO EL ARPA. Location: BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL-COLECCION, MADRID, SPAIN.

Woman on a Bank, Bernard Willem Wierink, 1866 - 1939 drawing Design for illustration (fol. 2): Van den Vos Reinaerde; Woman on a couch. paper. cardboard. ink. pencil. chalk pen / brush fable of Reynard the Fox

Diwan-i-Khas, hall of Private Audience, was the most exclusive and opulent of the fort's pavilions, with marble walls and pillars inlaid with precious and semi-precious stones.

The image depicts a funeral pyre in India, where four individuals are present. It illustrates the cultural practice where a deceased persons wife, friend, or brother may be willingly cremated alongside them. The artwork dates from approximately 1220 to 1283 and possibly originates from Shîrâz. The dimensions of the piece are 9 x 8.4 cm, and it features elements related to mountains, birds, and animals, in the context of Persian manuscripts

Miniature of a mediaeval pharmacy from the French translation of Roger of Salerno's Chirurgia. Dated 14th Century

Playing cards, Partial set of Italian Minchiate playing cards, Europe, 17th century, toys & games, Playing cards

ASTRONOMICUM CAESAREUM 1540. THE SIGNS OF THE ZODIAC. BOOK ASTRONOMY 16th CENTURY. Author: PEDRO APIANO (1495-1552). Location: BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL-COLECCION. MADRID. SPAIN.

On that day of Sunday I went ashore to see how the cloves grow. The tree is tall and as thick as a man. Its branches in the center spread out widely, but at the top they grow into a kind of peak. The leaf is like that of a laurel, and the bark of the color of brown tan. The cloves come at the tip of branches, ten or twenty together. These trees almost always bear more of them on one side than on the other, according to the season. When the cloves sprout, they are white; when ripe, red; and when dried, black. They gather them twice a year, at Christmas and again on the feast of St John the Baptist, because at these two seasons the air is most temperate, but more so at Christmas. And when the year is hotter, and there is less rain, they gather three or four hundred bahar of cloves in each of those islands, and they grow only in the mountains. . . . Nowhere in the world do good cloves grow except on five mountains of those five islands. . . . We saw almost every day a cloud descend and en

Origin of CUNEGUNT OF LUXEMBOURG; Genealogia Sancte Kunegundis Imperatricis; Liber chronicarum. Family tree about the origin of CUNEGUNT OF LUXEMBOURG. She stayed virgin in marriage with King Henry II of Germany, became emperor of the Holy Rooms empire. After his death she pulled back in an abbey. The family tree is made up of roots with flower cages. In the middle of the father of Cunegunde, called Siegfried van Luxembourg. He would be through a descendant of Charlemagne. Siegfried and his wife are therefore flanked in this family tree by Charles de Kale and Louis II, two sons of Louis de Vrome, the son of Charles the Great. At the top there are three other children from Siegfried: Diederik (Bishop of Metz), Adalbero and Hendrik (Duke of Bavaria). The print is part of an album.

Playing Card, Minchiate (Tarot) Playing Card; stencil-colored woodblock print; 1909-22-4-9

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