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Chronica Majora by Matthew Paris
Matthaei Paris Chronica Maiora I
Louis of France Arriving in England


Landing of Louis, with ship's crew: he gets into a boat out of his ship.


Chronica Maiora II, Saint Albans, England, ca. 1240–53. Folio 50v, MS 16II, Parker Library, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.

Figure 116, p.198 The Art of Matthew Paris in the Chronica Majora by Suzanne Lewis, 1987.

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