The Visitation (fol. 13r)
The Virgin Mary and her cousin, Elizabeth, greet each other. A handmaiden stands behind the Virgin and holds a basket. The house of Zacharias and Eliz...
Medieval Manuscripts
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A man and a monster (fol. 27r)
The historiated border includes a man holding an open book, and a grotesque with a man's head on a lion's body holding twigs bundled together. Conte...
Thistles, pears and periwinkles (fol. 154v)
The border is decorated with pink thistles, periwinkles, pears and curved acanthus leaves. There is a 2-line initial 'A' in blue and red on a gold gro...
Calendar: April (fol. 4r)
The double-compartment miniature has a man holding a branch, and the zodiacal sign of Taurus (the bull). The scenes in the historiated border are: an ...
Calendar: January (fol. 1r)
The double-compartment miniature has Janus looking in both directions while dining, and the zodiacal sign of Aquarius (the water carrier). The scenes ...
Decorated initial (fol. 44v)
3-line initial in gold on a mauve background, infilled with white penwork ornamentation of poppyheads or blueberries on a blue background. Context: ...
The Visitation (fol. 64v)
St. Elizabeth kneels and touches the swollen stomach of her cousin, the Virgin Mary. A hilly landscape and a town appear in the background. Golden ray...
[Breviarium Eboracense, etc.]
Decoration: 2-line initials in blue with red penwork ornamentation (ff. 6-16). Written in textualis quadrata (ff. 6-16), bastard (f. 17r) textualis ...
Calendar: November (fol. 11r)
2-line 'KL' initials in blue and red, infilled with flowers and patterned with white penwork, on gold grounds. The decorated border has curling acanth...
St. Martin (fol. 158r)
St. Martin, Bishop of Tours, on horseback, divides his cloak with his sword, and gives part of it to a beggar. Context: Suffrages: Saint Martin...