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| This illuminated manuscript depicting Saint Mark writing his gospel, comes from a leaf of a 13th-century Byzantine Psalter. According to tradition, during the 1st century ad Mark authored the Bible’s second Gospel, relying upon the teachings of Saint Peter. | ||||||
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| Bridgeman Art Library, London/New York | ||||||
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| Printing; Bible; Illuminated Manuscripts; Mark, Saint | ||||||
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