Dancing with the lion
Homiliarium. Source: gallica.bnf.fr Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits, Latin 1765, fol. 179r.
Multis vobis lectionibus
Homiliarium. Source: gallica.bnf.fr Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits, Latin 1765, fol. 157v.
Clement’s decor
Each book of this Bible starts with a heavily decorated page including historiated initial and a rich marginal decor that usually includes …
Biblical recliner
Biblia Clementis VII papae. Source: gallica.bnf.fr Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits, Latin 18, fol. 65v.
Locus enim in quo stas terra sancta est
Biblia Clementis VII papae. Source: gallica.bnf.fr Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits, Latin 18, fol. 1v.
Pope’s Bible
Biblia Clementis VII papae. Source: gallica.bnf.fr Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits, Latin 18, fol. 13r.
Masquerade
Things are not always as they appear. A wig for a disguise, a meathook as a bow for fake fiddle, and it …
Chimera joust
Lucii Annaei Senecae epistolarum libri viginti duo : praemittitur authoris vita. Source: gallica.bnf.fr Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits, Latin 8551, …
D Majuscule avec chapiteau
Capital D with capital. There are many capitals with architectural frames in this manuscript. This one is uniquely rendered in perspective. Lucii …
Peas and pearls with moth
Lucii Annaei Senecae epistolarum libri viginti duo : praemittitur authoris vita. Source: gallica.bnf.fr Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits, Latin 8551, …
Secundum Matheum
Missale Senonense. I Partie d’été. Source: gallica.bnf.fr Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits, Latin 864(1), fol. 100r.
Fond travaillé
Missale Senonense. I Partie d’été. Source: gallica.bnf.fr Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits, Latin 864(1), fol. 99v.
Parti-colored I
Raymundus de Pennaforti, Summa (1-106). Source: gallica.bnf.fr Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits, Latin 13466, fol. 32r.
Circular prayer book
Heures, avec quelques prières en allemand. Source: gallica.bnf.fr Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits, Latin 10526, pp. 225-226