Decorated initials (image 37)
Several initials in gold on blue/red backgrounds with white penwork ornament. Context: History of the world: French history...
Medieval Manuscripts
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Extracts from Ptolemy's Almagest and other works, and from the Greek commentators on the Almagest 9 (v.1)
Volume 1 contains extracts from Ptolemy Mathematike Syntaxis (the Almagest), together with two other short works on astronomy by Ptolemy (c. 2 AD), an...
Floral border (fol. 83r)
4-line initial 'G' in gold, on red/blue background, infilled with an aroid flower. Floral border composed of hairline tendrils connecting trefoils, go...
Pinks (fol. 96r)
6-line foliate initial 'D' infilled with small red pinks. Context: Devotions at mass: Domine deus de deo lumen...
Pomegranates and a bird (fol. 87v)
The border is decorated with a long-necked bird, pomegranates and curved acanthus leaves. 6-line foliate initial 'O' infilled with small red pimpernel...
Iris and birds (fol. 56r)
The border is decorated with bird-cherry tree flowers, anemones, irises, buttercups, periwinkles, strawberry flowers, waterbirds and snails. Context...
Floral border and initial (fol. 107v)
3-line initial in pink, gold, blue and green, with white penwork decoration, and infilled with a blue leaf. On the left, a column border decorated wit...
Floral border and initial (fol. 72r)
4-line initial in blue and gold, infilled with a pink flower, with white penwork decoration. Three-sided border of flowers, leaves and gold discs with...
Birds, flowers, a classical soldier (fol. 26r)
The border is decorated with strawberries, speedwells, heartsease, thistles, columbines, borage, flies, a bird with a long neck, and a dark apparently...