Monastery with Cloisters
Recueils de D. Estiennot. Chezal-Benoit. 1599. Source: gallica.bnf.fr Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits, Latin 12744, [p. 16bis]
Make the box fit the text
The large capital at the beginning of the line pushed these verses into the right margin. Publii Fausti Andrelini, Foroliviensis Poëtae, ad …
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. …
Moth and columbine
Pontifical Source: gallica.bnf.fr Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits, Latin 10578, p. 15.
St. Christopher’s checkered background
Horae ad usum Aurelianensem. Source: gallica.bnf.fr Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits, Latin 1368, fol. 56r.
Golden sheen
Horae ad usum Aurelianensem. Source: gallica.bnf.fr Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits, Latin 1368, fol. 48r.
Prancing forward, looking back
Horae ad usum Aurelianensem. Source: gallica.bnf.fr Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits, Latin 1368, fol. 24r.
Vigilie mortuorum
Horae ad usum ecclesiae Remensis. Source: gallica.bnf.fr Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits, Latin 18021, fol. 86r.
Facing the chimerae
Horae ad usum Turonensem Source: gallica.bnf.fr Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits, Latin 1202, fol. 73r. Horae ad usum Turonensem Source: …
Manuscript Curtain
Protecting delicate miniatures. Horae ad usum Turonensem Source: gallica.bnf.fr Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits, Latin 1202, fol. 36r.
Galeacius Primus
Galeazzo I Visconti (1277-1328), Duke of Milan bearing his unique coat of arms. vitae duodecim Ducum Mediolani, cum eorumdem iconibus : authore …
Wild one walking
Horae ad usum Catalaunensem. Source: gallica.bnf.fr Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits, Latin 1168, fol. 37r.