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Tables, Graphs, and Figures tables 1.1 Estimated Population of Florentine Convents inside the Walls, 1338–1552 13 3.1 Gross Assets of Florentine Convents, 1427 76 4.1 Major Embroidery Commissions at S. Brigida del Paradiso, 1451–1511 136 graphs 3.1 Mean Assets of Florentine Convents, 1427 (inside and outside Walls) 77 3.2 Expenses at S. Felicita, 1438 93 4.1 Textile Income, S. Brigida del Paradiso, 1451–98 133 4.2 Monticelli Textile Income, 1520–90 143 figures 1.1 Francesco Botticini, St. Monica Creates the Order of Augustinian Nuns 15 1.2 Anonymous, Veiling Ceremony of a Florentine Nun 18 1.3 Woodcut, Nuns of Le Murate Receiving Savonarola 33 2.1 Convent emblem of S. Pier Maggiore 59 2.2 Upper loggia of cloister, S. Apollonia 64 4.1 Chasuble (late fifteenth century), with embroidered orphrey band (late fifteenth to early sixteenth century), Italy or Spain 134 4.2 Suor Agnola da Rabatta (miniatures) and Suor Gostanza Cocchi (text), breviary from convent of S. Ambrogio 148 5.1 Cosimo Rosselli, Procession of the Holy Miracle 158 This page intentionally left blank ...

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