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Sous rature

The parchment appears to have been scraped here. Pontifical, suivi de pièces relatives au Mont-Saint Michel. Source: gallica.bnf.fr Bibliothèque nationale de France, …

Serifs and semi-colons

Pontifical, suivi de pièces relatives au Mont-Saint Michel. Source: gallica.bnf.fr Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits, Latin 14832, fol. 2r. Per …

Rubric Spectrum

Multi-colored “rubrication” throughout this volume. Some very interesting monochromatic large initials later in the volume. Genèse et autres livres de la Bible …

Subject of contemplation

Genèse et autres livres de la Bible Source: gallica.bnf.fr Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits, Latin 11548, fol. 135v.

Gloriosus

Ado Viennensis, Chronicon sive Breviarium de sex mundi aetatibus ab Adamo usque ad annum 869 [avec une continuation d’après Reginon et Aimoin] …

River Jordan

Lots of externally historiated capitals like this one in this ms. Very fun to flip through. Ado, Martyrologium et obituarium (11-133). Source: …

Entangled dove in Quoniam

Evangelium Lucae cum glossa ordinaria. Source: gallica.bnf.fr Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits, Latin 635, fol. 4r.

Fashioning Adam and Eve

Genesis cum glosa Source: gallica.bnf.fr Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits, Latin 14399, fol. 5v.

Red Blue

Biblia. Latin 14396 Source: gallica.bnf.fr Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits, Latin 14396, fol. 95r.

Parti-colored A – 12th-c

Bernardus Claraevallensis , Sermones super Cantica Canticorum Source: gallica.bnf.fr Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits, Latin 14510, fol. 102r.