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Canon Table Arcade

Canon Table Arcade

Bible (The ‘Moutier-Grandval Bible’). Source: British Library Add MS 10546, f. 351r.

Hare Line Filler

Hare Line Filler

Bible (The ‘Moutier-Grandval Bible’). Source: British Library Add MS 10546, f. 7r.

Spring Blossoms

Spring Blossoms

Majmu’a / مجموعه Source: British Library Add ms 7914, f. 70r.

Descender Dweller

Descender Dweller

Boccaccio, Des cas de nobles hommes et femmes Source: British Library Add ms 35321, f.50v.

Crossing Borders

Crossing Borders

[Muntakhab-i] Dīvān-i Navā’ī / منتخب ديوان نوائي Source: British Library Or 3493, f. 3r.

Judgment of Paris

Judgment of Paris

Source: Universiteitsbibliotheek Gent Historia destructionis Troiae, Vlaanderen, 2e helft 15e eeuw. Universiteitsbibliotheek Gent, HS. 404, fol. 1r.

Curlicue Border

Curlicue Border

1469. Source: Universiteitsbibliotheek Gent Graduale van de Sint-Baafsabdij te Gent, BHSL.HS.0014, ff. 79v-80r.

Synagoga

Synagoga

Missal (‘The Sherborne Missal’) Source: British Library Add MS 74236, p. 30.

Corrigendum

Corrigendum

The modern eye may interpret this marginal message as a word balloon, but the tail is merely decorative, I believe. The red …

Seeing Double

Seeing Double

Psalter Source: British Library Lansdowne ms 420, f.27v.

Unfinished Goose

Unfinished Goose

The Four Gospels with St Jerome’s prologues, and a lectionary Source: The British Library Stowe ms 3, f.5v.

Blue border

Blue border

Flavius Josèphe , Antiquités judaïques et Guerre des Juifs. Flavius Josèphe, Antiquités judaïques, Tables suivies des Livres I à IV. Source: gallica.bnf.fr …

Single-stem border

Single-stem border

« Le Mirouer historial » de « VINCENT » [de Beauvais], traduction de « JEHAN DU VIGNAY ». Français 50 Source: gallica.bnf.fr …