Pentecostal Dove
Horae ad usum romanum. Source: gallica.bnf.fr Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits, Latin 1369, p. 115
Parti-colored S – 15th-c
At what point do we stop talking about the extraordinary because it has become commonplace? 1.° Tractatus de ecclesiastica potestate, libris tribus …
Putti bout
Heures Source: gallica.bnf.fr Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits, Latin 9472, fol. 1r.
Royal annointing
Heures Source: gallica.bnf.fr Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits, Latin 9472, fol. 24v.
Dragon with strawberries
Or is it a griffin? Heures Source: gallica.bnf.fr Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits, Latin 9472, fol. 12r.
The King and the Cardinal
Johannes Bessario, Adversus Georgium Trapezuntium, calumniatorem Platonis, defensionum opus . Source: gallica.bnf.fr Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits, Latin 12946, fol. …
Venus Tapestry
Le livre du Coeur d’amour épris, par le roi René d’Anjou. Source: gallica.bnf.fr Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits, Français 24399, …
DBG
Julius Caesar, De Bello gallico . Source: gallica.bnf.fr Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Manuscrits, Latin 5779, fol. 1r.
Great Bowls of Fire
Bartholomaei Minoritae , Mantuani, ad Ludovicum Gonzaïcum liber de memoria artificiali : subjiciuntur hominum, animalium, aliorumque id genus figurae Source: gallica.bnf.fr Bibliothèque …
Simulated wood grain
Bartholomaei Minoritae , Mantuani, ad Ludovicum Gonzaïcum liber de memoria artificiali : subjiciuntur hominum, animalium, aliorumque id genus figurae Source: gallica.bnf.fr Bibliothèque …
Un peintre sur trois
All the illustrations in this curious ms. are painted sideways, so we need to turn our head – sorry about that. But …
White vines in the margin
Bartholomaei Faccii libri decem de rebus gestis Alphonsi I. Regis Neapolitani. Source: gallica.bnf.fr Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits, Latin 5912A, …
Warming his toes
Horae ad usum Parisiensem. Source: gallica.bnf.fr Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits, Latin 1173, fol. 1v.
Chiasmus?
This is not how a literature professor would explain the term, but what else would you call these crossed alphabets? Pontificale Parisiense. …