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uppian, wk.v: to mount up, rise. (UP-pi-ahn / ˈʌp-pɪ-an)

Historiated V in a medieval manuscript depicting the crowned and haloed Virgin Mary, hands folded in prayer, sitting on a blue throne that is being raised above a tomb by eight angels.
Manuscript leaf with the Assumption of the Virgin from an antiphonary illuminated by Niccolò di ser Sozzo; Italy (Siena), c. 1340; The Metropolitan Museum of Art 96.32.12. [metmuseum.org]

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