Manuscript Art | Taking a closer look

Dragon and the Book of Fire

A very impressive displays of heraldry. Rare use of black. Heures à l’usage dominicain , dites Heures de Frédéric d’Aragon Source: gallica.bnf.fr …

A matter of life and death

Heures à l’usage dominicain , dites Heures de Frédéric d’Aragon Source: gallica.bnf.fr Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits, Latin 10532, p. …

Pearls in a trompe-l’oeil frame

Heures à l’usage dominicain , dites Heures de Frédéric d’Aragon Source: gallica.bnf.fr Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits, Latin 10532, p. …

Green H with knot

The tail takes a little more room than was given. Homiliarium. Source: gallica.bnf.fr Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits, Latin 804, …

A Proper exchange

Manfredus de Monte Imperiali, Liber de herbis et plantis. — De avibus et piscibus. — Nicolaus, Medicus, Doctrina de usualibus medicinis earumque …

De column A

Manfredus de Monte Imperiali, Liber de herbis et plantis. — De avibus et piscibus. — Nicolaus, Medicus, Doctrina de usualibus medicinis earumque …

Tendril Tail

Missale Parisiense. Source: gallica.bnf.fr Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits, Latin 830, fol. 125r.

Fancy F with cue letter

There are lots of these bubbly parti-colored capitals in this manuscript. Missale Parisiense. Source: gallica.bnf.fr Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits, …

Tall Manger

Missale Parisiense. Source: gallica.bnf.fr Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits, Latin 830, fol. 21r.

Cicero’s Web

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Epistolae ad familiares, ad Brutum, ad Quintum fratrem et adAtticum . Deux volumes. I. Cicero, Epistolae ad familiares. Source: …

Arma virumque cano

1.° Publii Terentii, Afri, comoediae sex ; decimo tertio saeculo exaratae. — 2.° D. Juvenalis satyrarum quarta, cujus initium desideratur, quinta, sexta, …