Fifteenth-century illuminated manuscript leaf recovered for Rome’s Aracoeli basilica

Carabinieri returned a Virgin and Child miniature stolen in the 1980s. Investigators spotted it on a London auction website and traced it to a Swiss branch of an auction company, which agreed to surrender it. Image of the miniature supplied by Carabinieri and published by The Journal of Cultural Heritage Crime.
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