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A HISTORY OF WOOD-ENGRAVING.
Fig. 3.—The Crucifixion. From the Manuscript "Book of Devotion." 1445.
rubber. There are numerous other prints of this kind, which have been described in detail and have had conjectural dates assigned to them, fruitful of much antiquarian dispute. One of these (Fig. 3) is here reproduced for the first time; it was found stitched into a manuscript of 1445, and is unquestionably as old as the manuscript; it represents a Crucifixion,
