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Tomb of St. Louis

Guillaume de Saint-Pathus, Vie et Miracles de saint Louis . Source: gallica.bnf.fr Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Manuscrits, Français 5716, fol. …

BL-AddMS12531-fol4r

Regina Dona Theodora

1530-1534, Contents and decoration:This manuscript consists of 13 detached folios from a Royal genealogy.

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Blue dress, gold armor

1530-1534, Contents and decoration:This manuscript consists of 13 detached folios from a Royal genealogy.

Nascien’s prison escape

British Library, Royal MS 14 E III, fol. 42r, Lancelot-Grail Prose Cycle. Nascien is held prisoner. In the night, a hand in …

The Cherub of moral acts

The Cherub of moral acts

Tableaux Source: gallica.bnf.fr Bibliothèque de l’Arsenal, 1037, fol. 6v. Some of the same diagrams appear in British Library Arundel 83, as in …

British Library Add MS88887

Pattern Book: capitals and borders

Patterns or models of alphabets and borders (the ‘Macclesfield Alphabet Book’). A collection of 14 different sets of specimen initials or letters …

Woven text

Gradual of Saint-Etienne of Toulouse, including a tonary (a collection of chant melodies) British Library, Harley 4951, fol. 123.