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(CHRIST BEFORE CAIAPHAS.) Vellum leaf from a French Book of Hours with miniature depicting Christ before Caiaphas within full-page floral border, text written in gothic hand in black ink, 3 lines on recto and 6 on verso. Leaf 160x124, miniature 97x65 mm; outer margin trimmed touching border, minor soiling on verso. Northeastern France, possibly Metz, circa 1440
An image of this subject would normally be found in the Hours of the Cross, but the text accompanying this miniature is an 8-line poem in French beginning "Deva[n]t Cayphas fus menes / moult honteusement / con larron" (You were brought before Caiaphas / very shamefully / like a thief).
