Hippocamp (fol. 117v)
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Hippocamp (fol. 117v)
Other titles: Textualis Semi-quadrata
Classmark: BC MS 24/7
Date(s): [ca. 1450-1500]
Language: Dutch
Manifest: https://iiif.library.leeds.ac.uk/presentation/cc/bfbm44vd
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/373362
Collection group(s): Medieval Manuscripts
Description
4-line initial 'S' in gold, on red/blue background, decorated with white penwork (flowers and leaves). A bar-frame column border in gold and blue, and with small green leaf motifs. The border is decorated with large leaves (partly uncoloured), trefoils, golden ball, barbed quatrefoils, and a blue sea-horse-type creature, a hippocamp, with a coiling fish-like lower body and the upper body of a horse.
Context: Psalter
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