Municipal Autun library curator, Viviane Cattane, showing the decorated initials, borders and miniature illustrations in a mediaeval manuscript that was recently re-discovered in the archives in Autun, central France. This well-conserved Catholic Church illuminated manuscript, a pontifical used by bishops during religious ceremonies, was produced in Italy between 1325 and 1350 by three great masters of Bologna according to French experts of the France National Library (BNF).

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