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Cover illustration: Poetic prophetical text introducing the Essence of the Gospel (Lead Book 17). Its six lines, written on a Seal of Solomon, were constructed after the pattern observed in the Arabic poetical “commentary” on the Spanish prophecy of the Parchment of the Turpiana Tower.
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ISSN 0169-8834
ISBN 978-90-04-68085-2 (hardback)
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DOI 10.1163/9789004685277
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