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Archive Piece:
MS 498/1

[ca 1450-1500]

4-line initial 'D' in blue on red background, decorated with a strawberry, a speedwell and a daisy, and inhabited with a head-and-shoulders portrait of Christ, crowned with thorns.

Archive Piece:
MS 124/2

[ca 1480-1520]

6- and 4-line initials in red and blue, infilled and decorated with floral ornamentation in various colours.

Archive Piece:
MS 124/3

[ca 1480-1520]

7- and 3-line initials 'I' in red and blue, decorated with pen ornamentation of flowers and pomegranates in various colours.

Archive Piece:
MS 498/2

[ca 1450-1500]

Virgin Mary holding the Christ-Child within a mandorla, framed with rosary beads. Across the miniature is a cartouche on which a prayer in French is written.

Archive Piece:
MS 498/3

[ca 1450-1500]

The miniature shows a skull and cross-bones in a grassy landscape.

Archive Piece:
MS 498/4

[ca 1450-1500]

3-line initial in gold on a mauve background, infilled with white penwork ornamentation of poppyheads or blueberries on a blue background.

Archive Piece:
MS 498/5

[ca 1450-1500]

The miniature shows the weeping Virgin Mary, with her hands clasped in prayer, and a sword piercing her chest. She is beside the crucified Christ, the bottom of whose legs are visible.