French marriage ceremony, 15th century. The bride's previous husband watches from a prison cell. La femme aux deux maris. From a miniature in Gratian's Decretum manuscript, MS JL4, Bibliotheque de l'Arsenal. Chromolithograph by Emile Beau after an illustration by Claudius Joseph Ciappori from Charles Louandre’s Les Arts Somptuaires, The Sumptuary Arts, Hangard-Mauge, Paris, 1858.

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