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Animated marginalia

Animated marginalia

Evangeliar Ottos III Source: München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek – Clm 4453, 207r.

And then a bird stepped in my eye

And then a bird stepped in my eye

There are many hidden faces in the marginalia of this manuscript. Adalbertus, von Augsburg: Vita Sancti Simperti Source: München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München, …

Floral Letters

Floral Letters

Sakramentar Heinrichs II Source: München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek – Clm 4456, fol. 13v.

Triangular Halo

Triangular Halo

Book of Hours Source: https://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/ Basel, Universitätsbibliothek, AN VIII 45, 14r.

Presentation with dragon and bezants

Presentation with dragon and bezants

Gothefridi Viterbiensis pantheon ; passim figurae. Source: gallica.bnf.fr Bibliothèque nationale de France. Département des Manuscrits. Latin 4895, fol. 6v.

Floral border with bezants

Floral border with bezants

Claudius Ptolemaeus , Cosmographia , Jacobus Angelus interpres. Source: gallica.bnf.fr Bibliothèque nationale de France. Département des Manuscrits. Latin 8834, fol. 39v.

Intercolumnar portrait

Intercolumnar portrait

Claudius Ptolemaeus , Cosmographia , Jacobus Angelus interpres. Source: gallica.bnf.fr Bibliothèque nationale de France. Département des Manuscrits. Latin 8834, fol. 2r.

Saint Michael

Saint Michael

Horae ad usum Trecensem, dites Heures de Michel et Catherine Berthier Source: gallica.bnf.fr Bibliothèque nationale de France. Département des Manuscrits. Latin 924, …

Factorum Feet

Factorum Feet

Evangelia. Source: gallica.bnf.fr Bibliothèque nationale de France. Département des Manuscrits. Latin 275, fol. 74r.

A Bon Droit

A Bon Droit

Justini historiarum libri quadraginta quatuor. Source: gallica.bnf.fr Bibliothèque nationale de France. Département des Manuscrits. Latin 4958, fol. 1r. Here’s the same device, …

Cameo border

Cameo border

Claudius Ptolemaeus , Cosmographia , Jacobus Angelus interpres. Source: gallica.bnf.fr Bibliothèque nationale de France. Département des Manuscrits. Latin 8834, fol. 1r.

Between the lines

Between the lines

Claudii Ptolemaei almagestum, libris tredecim. Source: gallica.bnf.fr Bibliothèque nationale de France. Département des Manuscrits. Latin 7258, fol. 48v.

Crisp border

Crisp border

Claudii Ptolemaei almagestum, libris tredecim. Source: gallica.bnf.fr Bibliothèque nationale de France. Département des Manuscrits. Latin 7258, fol. 1r.

Partridge in a Pear Tree

Partridge in a Pear Tree

Petrus Lombardus, Collectanea in Epistolas Pauli. VII Source: gallica.bnf.fr Bibliothèque nationale de France. Département des Manuscrits. Latin 665, fol. 2r.