Illuminated miniature of soldiers with spears and an axe walking from a beached ship up to a walled city, while archers on a rocky slope shoot and a figure watches from a ship's deck; four lines of Gothic script above
Livre des merveilles (Paris, BnF fr. 2810, about 1410-1412), fol. 72r. Above the miniature are the last lines of the Cipangu chapter in the French version this manuscript carries; the miniature opens the following chapter, in which the soldiers stranded on the islet seize the islanders' ships and enter their city. The text of this manuscript is not the Franco-Italian text printed in the edition here. Cropped from the Commons PDF of the manuscript.Unknown illuminator (Paris, workshop associated with the Mazarine Master); Bibliothèque nationale de France, about 1410-1412 · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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