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Hippocamp (fol. 117v)
[ca. 1450-1500]
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 decor...
Floral border (fol. 117v)
[ca. 1440-1460]
Rinceau border with acanthus leaves, thistles, barbed quatrefoils, red berries, bluebells, a trumpet flower, and black hairline tendrils with gold ivy leaves and pine cones. Bar-frame border in rose/b...
Acanthus leaves (fol. 117r)
[ca. 1500-1520]
The border is decorated with acanthus leaves and flowers. 7-line foliate initial 'S'.
Initial 'O' (fol. 117r)
[ca. 1450-1500]
Blue initial 'O' with white penwork ornamentation, and with foliate infill in blue, green, red and ochre, on a pink ground. Pasted in from another (13th-century?) manuscript.
Decorative foliage (fol. 117v)
[ca. 1450-1500]
Foliage design in pink, green, red and ochre, and with a small grotesque head, on a blue ground. Pasted in from another (13th-century?) manuscript.
Calendar: September (fol. 9r)
[ca. 142-?]
The double-compartment miniature has a man treading grapes, and the zodiacal sign of Libra (the balance, or scales). The scenes in the historiated border are: St Anthony with a book; an unidentified b...
Two grey herons (fol. 23r)
[ca. 1500-1520]
The border is decorated with two birds (grey herons?) fighting, a butterfly and curved acanthus leaves. 6-line foliate initial 'L'.
Priest asperging an altar (fol. 175v)
[ca. 1260]
Initial 'V' encloses the scene of a priest asperging an altar, with three members of the church standing behind him.
[Breviarium ad Usum Parisiensem]
[ca. 1440-1460]
Decoration: 27 large arched miniatures, seven historiated 9-line initials, and several 1-4-line decorated initials and line-fillers throughout. Fine rinceaux border throughout the manuscript. Dr J. J....
[The festial of English sermons]
Mirk, John (fl. 1403?)
[ca. 1450-1500]
Several leaves missing and damaged, getting more fragmentary towards the end. 2-line initials and highlighting in red, with occational pointing hands in the margins, throughout the Festial. A type...
[Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis]
Braddyll family
[ca. 1470-1480]
f. iii is a medieval flyleaf. Decoration: 1 full-page miniature depicting the burial service and 1 smaller miniature of the Virgin and Child, defaced in the Reformation period, and partially repaint...