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Skulls and flowers (fol. 106r)
[ca.1480-1500]
The border is decorated with skulls, flies, roses, thistles, strawberries, speedwells, stems and leaves of the acanthus plant.
Calendar: July (fol. 8r)
[ca.1480-1500]
The roundel miniature has the zodiacal sign of Leo (the lion). The border is decorated with flies, strawberries, columbines, heartsease, speedwells and acanthus leaves.
Birds and flowers (fol. 77r)
[ca.1480-1500]
The border is decorated with birds, a fly, strawberries, speedwells, thistles, columbines and acanthus leaves. 6-line foliate initial.
Calendar: February (fol. 3r)
[ca.1480-1500]
The roundel miniature depicts the zodiacal sign of Pisces (the fish). The border is decorated with pinks, pea flowers, strawberries, speedwells, curled acanthus leaves and a fly.
Dragon and butterfly (fol. 98v)
[ca. 1500-1520]
The border is decorated with acanthus leaves, a deadnettle, a borage, a strawberry and a butterfly. 6-line zoomorphic initial 'S' formed of a green-winged dragon.
Birds and flowers (fol. 14r)
[ca.1480-1500]
The border is decorated with birds, roses, thistles, strawberries, speedwells and acanthus leaves. 6-line foliate initial.
Calendar: October (fol. 11r)
[ca.1480-1500]
The roundel miniature has the zodiacal sign of September, Libra (the balance), although it should have the sign for October, Scorpio (the scorpion). The border is decorated with strawberries, columbin...
Stork, owl, grapes and flowers (fol. 82r)
[ca. 1500-1520]
The border is decorated with a white stork, an owl, a partridge and other birds, grapes, a periwinkle, a pimpernel, pinks, and a butterfly. 11-line foliate initial formed of corn and acanthus leaves. ...
Bullfinch and flowers (fol. 18r)
[ca. 1500-1520]
A full border decorated with wild roses, columbine, heartsease, speedwells, pinks, a blue daisy (purple-stemmed aster), acanthus leaves, a butterfly, a bullfinch, and other birds. 10-line foliate init...
A bird, flowers and a man (fol. 81r)
[ca.1480-1500]
The border is decorated with a bird, pinks, strawberries, thistles, speedwells, acanthus leaves and a man dressed in clothes for labour, with a hat, a hood, an apron and boots. 5-line foliate initial ...
Birds and flowers (fol. 1r)
[ca. 1500-1520]
The gold-wash border is decorated with pinks, borage, strawberries, buttercups, forgetmenot, lungwort (?), periwinkle, beetles, birds, ladybirds and a butterfly. 11-line foliate initial 'H' formed of ...
Agony in the Garden (fol. 61r)
[ca. 1490 and ca. 1500-1510]
Christ kneels in prayer in the garden of Gethsemane. Three of the apostles sit in a group behind him, two of them sleeping. The border is decorated with a heartsease, daisies, celandine, blue carnatio...