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Folio 27v Commentary

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full folio image of f27v f27v Text: the mystic aspects of the dove. The silver coloured dove. Illustration: A dove in a roundel. This rather plain lifeless bird does not do justice to the luscious pictorial descriptions devoted to the dove ff26-30r. The dove's feet are described as red for its symbolic meaning on f28r but are shown as brown on f27v.The rubric is written up the side of the image. One initial type 2.

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