Partridge and hawk (fol. 41r)
The border is decorated with a hawk-like bird and a partridge-like bird, buttercups, strawberry flowers and acanthus leaves. 6-line foliate initial. ...
Medieval Manuscripts
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Floral border and initial (fol. 107r)
3-line initial in blue, gold, pink and green, with white penwork decoration, and infilled with a pink leaf. On the left, a column border decorated wi...
Floral border and initial (fol. 62r)
4-line initial in blue and gold, infilled with a pink and a purple flower, with white penwork decoration. Three-sided border of flowers, leaves and go...
A couple in a garden (fol. 21r)
The border is decorated with columbines, speedwells, pea flowers, strawberries, thistles, a bird, a fly, and a man and woman kneeling on the grass and...
Calendar: November (fol. 11v)
The miniature at the foot of the page depicts two men and a woman knocking acorns out of oak trees and driving pigs to the woods to eat them. The bord...
Calendar: August (fol. 8v)
The miniature at the foot of the page depicts two men threshing within a house. The border is decorated with a robin, a fly, primroses, thistles and s...
St. Anne and the Virgin Mary (fol. 135v)
St. Anne is shown teaching the Virgin Mary to read. Context: Suffrages: Saint Anne and the Virgin Mary: Deus qui beate Anne tantam graciam...
St. Stephen (fol. 131r)
St. Stephen, shown holding a stone (?). Context: Suffrages: Saint Stephen: Stephanus plenus gracia et fortitudine...
Pieta (fol. 118v)
The Virgin Mary is shown holding the body of the crucified Christ. Context: Devotions to the Virgin Mary: Stabat mater dolorosa...
St. Matthew, the Evangelist (fol. 16r)
The full-page miniature shows St. Matthew, the Evangelist, copying a manuscript from another held by an angel, his symbol. The border is formed from a...