Catalogue of the Extraordinary Collection of Splendid Manuscripts: Chiefly Upon Vellum, in Various Languages of Europe & the East |
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Page 73 - At the end of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century, society was in a state of excitement.
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