A man and a monster making music (fol. 26v)
The historiated border includes a bear-like grotesque playing a drum, and a man playing a psaltery. Context: Penitential psalms: Misere mei deus sec...
Medieval Manuscripts
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Calendar: March (fol. 3v)
The scenes in the historiated border are: Resurrection of Christ (Easter), St. Gertrude of Nivelles, an unidentified monk holding a crosier and a book...
Cest le liure des fays des Romains conpille en[sem]ble de la [...]uste et de suetoyne et du lucain [...]
The outer columns of text on ff. 6-10 are lacking. Columns are numbered with modern pencil throughout, 1-975. Decoration: 6-line incipit initial '...
Skull and bones (fol. 4v)
The miniature shows a skull and cross-bones in a grassy landscape. Context: Prayer to the Virgin: Le vault rosaire par lexemplaire...
[Psalterium]
A leaf missing before f. 14. A raised pastedown (f. 190) with the text in the form of absolution on recto, and part of a licence on verso. Decoratio...
Bar-frame border (fol. 19r)
Bar-frame border in rose/blue and gold, with small corner pieces of hairline tendrils with quatrefoils and golden pine cones and ivy leaves. 4-line in...
God speaking to Zephaniah (fol. 379v)
Initial 'V' encloses the scene of God speaking to the prophet Zephaniah. Ornamental initials 'T' and 'S' are decorated with foliage with small animal ...
God speaks to Obadiah (fol. 374r)
Initial 'V' encloses the scene of God speaking to the prophet Obadiah. An ornamental initial 'S' is decorated with foliage and the head of a grotesque...
Lily of the valley (fol. 171r)
The border is decorated with the lily of the valley, a pimpernel and acanthus leaves. 7-line foliate initial 'A'. Context: Prayer of St Augustine to...
A man and a monster (fol. 33v)
The historiated border includes a grotesque with a lizard's body and a man's head, and a man carrying two buckets over a stick. Context: Penitential...