Hippocamp (fol. 117v)
Description
4-line initial 'S' in gold, on red/blue background, decorated with white penwork (flowers and leaves). A bar-frame column border in gold and blue, and with small green leaf motifs. The border is decorated with large leaves (partly uncoloured), trefoils, golden ball, barbed quatrefoils, and a blue sea-horse-type creature, a hippocamp, with a coiling fish-like lower body and the upper body of a horse. Context: Psalter
Metadata
| Identifier | bfbm44vd |
| IRN | 373362 |
| Class Mark | BC MS 24/7 |
| Level | Piece |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/bfbm44vd |
| Collection(s) | Medieval Manuscripts |
| Category | Archive Manuscript |
| Parent Record | [Psalterium] |
| Date | [ca. 1450-1500] |