Calendar: September (fol. 9r)
The main miniature depicts two men making wine: one treads the grapes, while another carries more grapes in a basket on his back. The border miniature...
Medieval Manuscripts
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Man and mythical bird (fol. 16r)
The historiated border includes a man with a wooden club and a bird-like grotesque with lion's legs and a beak in the shape of a trumpet. Context: G...
St John (fol. 13r)
The scenes in the historiated border are: eagle, the symbol of the Evangelist St John; St John; and St John on Patmos, with the devil behind him steal...
Calendar: October (fol. 10r)
The double-compartment miniature has a man sowing, and the zodiacal sign of Scorpio (the scorpion). The figures in the historiated border include St. ...
Calendar: July (fol. 7r)
The double-compartment miniature has a man reaping corn, and the zodiacal sign of Leo (the lion). The historiated border has a man binding sheaves; a ...
[Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis]
The quire signatures (b-o) indicate a missing quire at the beginning of the manuscript (a calendar). Decoration: One full-page miniature (Virgin and...
Jerome (fol. 2r)
Initial 'F' encloses the scene of St. Jerome writing, holding a quill and a sharpening knife. He wears a tonsure, a black cape and white garments. The...
Legenda aurea sanctorum, by Jacobus de Voragine
Includes a 13th century manuscript of Josephus and a 13th century Breviary bound into the codex as fly-leaves...