Little Capital H

Johannes Cassianus, De institutis coenobiorum et de octo principalium vitiorum remediis, , lib. III-X, fragmenta; Collationes Patrum , Lib. I, 11-IV, 19.
Johannes Cassianus, De institutis coenobiorum et de octo principalium vitiorum remediis, , lib. III-X, fragmenta; Collationes Patrum , Lib. I, 11-IV, 19.
Source: gallica.bnf.fr

Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Manuscrits, NAL 2694, fol. 13v.

There are many beautiful large-format capitals with heavily entwined white vines. This is an uncharacteristically small capital with a simpler vine structure. For comparison, a large-format H looks like this (fol. 6v):

Johannes Cassianus, De institutis coenobiorum et de octo principalium vitiorum remediis, , lib. III-X, fragmenta; Collationes Patrum , Lib. I, 11-IV, 19.
Johannes Cassianus, De institutis coenobiorum et de octo principalium vitiorum remediis, , lib. III-X, fragmenta; Collationes Patrum , Lib. I, 11-IV, 19.
Source: gallica.bnf.fr

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