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Miracle data
Source name: Pseudo-Caesarius
Short title: The Painter and the Devil
Poncelet Number: 345 - Diabolus accedit ad pictorem; quaesivit cur eum tam
Reference numbers: no.29 no.
Rubric/Title in source: De pictore, quem ymago sancte Marie cum manu tenuit, ne dyabolus eum in yma precipitaret
Incipit: Dyabolus accedens ad pictorem quesivit, cur eum tam horribilem depinxisset
Notes: 63 (Hilka, p. 184) III, 43 (Meister ed.)