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Detail of a miniature of sheep. This is a 'Second Family' bestiary; see James; Payne p. 15. Numerous (112) miniatures in brown, green, and red, on alternately blue and red backgrounds. Small initials in red. Bestiary Thomas Rawlinson (b. 1681,
figures and birds, in colours and gold (ff. 3, 23v, 34, 43, 60v, 64, 83v, 99, 112v, 135v, 146). 18 small column-wide miniatures with large decorated initials and partial foliate borders including hybrid figures and birds, in colours and gold
tugs on his hood, and a standing man holds a pig by his hind legs, in illustration of Paradiso XXIX. Pope-Hennessy 1993 proposed a date after 1444, partly depending on the representations of the dome and cupola of Florence Cathedral,
tugs on his hood, and a standing man holds a pig by his hind legs, in illustration of Paradiso XXIX. Pope-Hennessy 1993 proposed a date after 1444, partly depending on the representations of the dome and cupola of Florence Cathedral,
anchor and shears, the royal arms and Prince of Wales's feathers, dated 1623, and initials NF; anchor andsheep, the arms of London and of the Merchant Taylors' Company, dated 1619, and initials BW; a sun, dated 1625, and initials
by Robert Harley (b. 1661, d. 1724), 1st earl of Oxford and Mortimer, politician, and Edward Harley (b. 1689, d. 1741), 2nd earl of Oxford and Mortimer, book collector and patron of the arts, inscribed as usual by their librarian,
a sheep in its mouth and a crippled hybrid creature (f. 47v), a man climbing a vine and a hybrid creature wrestling a bear (f. 88v). Numerous initials in gold and colours, some with with tendrils of gold leaves and
border in gold and colours, with a bird (f. 54). Four partial borders in gold and colours (ff. 4, 18, 26, 43v). A historiated initial in gold and colours (f. 4) and other foliate initials in gold and colours. Unfinished
Donatian and Rogatian in red (24th May; venerated in Nantes and in the diocese of Meaux), and Fara (7th December, venerated in Faremoutier in Brie), but it includes as well both John and Genevieve (3rd January, f. 1), and the
the Vienna and Copenhagen Toison d’Or (ff. 14v, 281v, 284).Catchwords and bifolium signatures. Foliation in red beginning on f. 10.Written instructions to the illuminator. 5 half-page miniatures in colours and gold, with full borders, and initials in colours and gold
colours and gold with foliate motifs and a partial border with rinceaux decoration in the outer margin (f. 1). Another large initial in colours and gold and foliate motifs (f. 119). Initials in red and blue with red and black
a sheep in its mouth and a crippled hybrid creature (f. 47v), a man climbing a vine and a hybrid creature wrestling a bear (f. 88v). Numerous initials in gold and colours, some with with tendrils of gold leaves and
queen of England and Ireland (1553-1558): inscribed, 'Gode saue the most vertuous and no/bull Quene Marys gras, / and send her to injoye the crou[n]ne / of Eynglande longe tyme and spas / her enimys to confunde, and / hutterly