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There is no copyright in a medieval illuminated manuscript. Under US 
Copyright law (but not European) there is also no separate copyright in 
a photograph of a two-dimensional artwork.

John Briggs


On 25/03/2010 19:11, Madeleine Gray wrote:
> Many thanks, Jim - I'll pass that on.
> The miniature is in an illuminated book in a library which holds the copyright and is I gather very sensitive about it. I don't have details! It was however published in Art and devotion in late medieval Ireland,  ed. Rachel Moss, Colmán Ó Clabaigh&  Salvador Ryan (Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2006), in the section of the book containing colour plates.
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