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Full page: framed text with historiated initial 'P': Appearance of Christ at the Sea of Galilee (John 21, 4-9). On the right, Christ stands with his back to the viewer, speaking to the three apostles on the sea. Peter climbs out of the boat.
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Full page: framed text with historiated initial 'P': Appearance of Christ at the...

Full page: framed text with historiated initial 'I': Cutting Grain on the Sabbath (Matthew 12, 1). In the lower part of the image, Peter cuts grain in a field. John stands behind him and eats, with Christ on raised ground at the back of the field.
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Full page: framed text with historiated initial 'I': Cutting Grain on the Sabbat...

Full page: framed text with interlaced initial 'E(t ego)'. Colophon of the scribe and illuminator Johann von Troppau ('Johannes de Oppavia'), dated 1368.
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Full page: framed text with interlaced initial 'E(t ego)'. Colophon of the scrib...

Full page: Deisis in framed pictorial field: Christ appears in judgment in a mandorla between Mary and John the Baptist, sitting on a rainbow and showing his five wounds. The mandorla is filled with a ring of angels; it is framed above by two further angels with Passion instruments, and below by a trumpet-blowing angel.
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Full page: Deisis in framed pictorial field: Christ appears in judgment in a man...

Full page: framed decorative page with the initial 'L(iber generationis)' and the beginning of the text of the Gospel of St Matthew. The letter contains musicizing angels playing contemporary instruments. In the background are interwoven dragons with human heads.
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Full page: framed text with historiated initial 'I': Teaching at the Lake - The Parable of the Sower (Matthew 13, 1-9). In the lower half of the picture, the preaching Christ and Peter in a boat on the lake. Above them the audience sits on the bank, divided into two groups by the shaft of the letter.
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Full page: framed text with historiated initial 'I': Salome presents the head of John the Baptist to Herodias (Matthew 14, 11). Salome presents the head on a platter to her enthroned mother. Salome is fashionably dressed and wears a crown, an unusual motif.
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Full page: framed text with historiated initial 'I': Salome presents the head of...

Full page: framed text with historiated initial 'T': Discussion between Christ and the Pharisees concerning the washing of hands (Matthew 15, 1-11). Accompanied by two apostles, Christ speaks with two Pharisees.
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Full page: framed text with historiated initial 'T': Discussion between Christ a...

Full page: framed text with historiated initial 'E': The Demand for a Sign (Matthew 16, 1). Christ and a Pharisee take part in a lively discussion, with the Pharisee pointing upwards and asking Christ to send a sign from the heavens.
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Full page: framed text with historiated initial 'E': The Demand for a Sign (Matt...

Full page: framed text with historiated initial 'E': The Transfiguration (Matthew 17, 1-3). Christ on Mount Tabor between Moses and Elias, with two apostles gesturing in astonishment beneath him (Peter and John). This differs from the Gospel text, where three apostles are mentioned.
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Full page: framed text with historiated initial 'E': The Transfiguration (Matthe...

Full page: framed text with historiated initial 'I': The Greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven (Matthew 18, 1-4). Christ talks to Peter, holding the hand of the child he summoned.
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Full page: framed text with historiated initial 'I': The Greatest in the Kingdom...

Full page: framed text with historiated initial 'E': Teaching About Divorce (Matthew 19, 3-12). Christ sits and speaks to the three Pharisees on the right.
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Full page: framed text with historiated initial 'E': Teaching About Divorce (Mat...