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Miracle data
Source name: BL Mariale 1
Short title: The Clerk of Pisa
Poncelet Number: 866 - In territorio civitatis, quae dicitur Pisa, erat quidam clericus
Reference numbers: book2 no.16
Foliation in source: f. 125v
Incipit: In territorio civitatis quae dicitur pisa
Summary: How, though devoted to the Virgin, he [the Clerk of Pisa] was persuaded by his friends to marry; and how he left his bride on their wedding day, to give himself up to the service of the Virgin (II, 609).