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Chronica Majora by Matthew Paris
Matthaei Paris Chronica Maiora I

French Troops Dying of Plague, 1242


French soldiers die of plague in Poitou.


Chronica Maiora II, Saint Albans, England, ca. 1240–53. Folio 160v, MS 16II, Parker Library, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.

Figure 127, p211 The Art of Matthew Paris in the Chronica Majora by Suzanne Lewis, 1987.

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