sitting on the ground, holding the hem of his habit, with a pair of scissors lying nearby. The style and subject, especially the many bas-de-page narratives ranging from romance and fabliau to biblical and hagiographic material, are closely connected to
on the ground, holding the hem of his habit, with a pair of scissors lying nearby. The style and subject, especially the many bas-de-page narratives ranging from romance and fabliau to biblical and hagiographic material, are closely connected to two
in a monkish habit, gives poison to King Ambrosius. The first quire misbound; the right order being ff. 2, 8, 3-7, 1, 9.French verse translation, in octosyllabic couplets, of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae.One of the first images of
2 large puzzle initials in red and blue with pen-flourishing in purple and red and decorated extension in red and blue (ff. 1, 3). Small initials in red with purple pen-flourishing or in blue with red pen-flourishing. Tractatus de practica
2 large puzzle initials in red and blue with pen-flourishing in purple and red and decorated extension in red and blue (ff. 1, 3). Small initials in red with purple pen-flourishing or in blue with red pen-flourishing. Tractatus de practica
red initial with blue penwork e.g. f. 148v. F. 27r - five-line red and blue initial O infilled with leaves outlined in red and infilled with blue, penwork surrounding initial in blue and red infilled alternately with blue and red.
brown ink in an early fourteenth-century Anglicana hand. Body height: 2 mm. Two-line blue initials with red penwork flourishing - swirls rather than foliate. Two-line red and blue paraphs. Not medieval. Size: 310 x 190 mm. Covered in dark brown/black