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Birds, butterflies and flowers (fol. 198r)

Archive Piece: BC MS 11/47 Contains digital media

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Birds, butterflies and flowers (fol. 198r)

Other titles: Hybrida

Level: Piece

Classmark: BC MS 11/47

Date(s): [ca. 1500-1520]

Language: Latin

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/373262

Collection group(s): Medieval Manuscripts

Description

The border is decorated with a female capercaillie (?), columbines (also buds), a strawberry flower, lily of the valley, a small tortoiseshell butterfly, a small waterbird and acanthus leaves. 7-line foliate initial infilled by an acanthus leaf and a flower.


Context: Prayer on the Seven Bodily Joys of the Virgin: Virgo templum trinitatis

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