Cities of God: The Religion of the Italian Communes 1125-1325

fig. 57 Christ with a ground line to cal-

culate his height, in a Florentine book of

devotion. Florence, Biblioteca Medicea

Laurenziana, msPl. xxv 3, fol. 15 v, late

thirteenth century. (photo: MicoFoto;

permission granted by Biblioteca

Medicea Laurenziana, Florence)

fig. 56 Prayer to Saint Brendan in a Sienese book of devotion. Siena, Biblioteca Comunale

degli Intronati, ms i.viii. 21 , fols. 16 v– 17 r, fourteenth century. (photo: Renzo Pepi, permis-

sion granted by Biblioteca Comunale degli Intronati, Siena, 20 October 2003 )

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