This delicately painted roundel has been attributed to the Venetian illuminator Cristoforo Cortese, active from ca. 1399 to before 1445, when a document refers to him as already dead. This cutting is from the same manuscript as Lewis E M 25:14. Several other leaves in the Free Library have also been attributed to Cortese. Unidentified saint, holding a martyr's palm This cutting has been dated to before 1445.
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