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Total number of records: 7
Birds and flowers (fol. 1r)
[ca. 1500-1520]
The gold-wash border is decorated with pinks, borage, strawberries, buttercups, forgetmenot, lungwort (?), periwinkle, beetles, birds, ladybirds and a butterfly. 11-line foliate initial 'H' formed of ...
Bullfinch and flowers (fol. 18r)
[ca. 1500-1520]
A full border decorated with wild roses, columbine, heartsease, speedwells, pinks, a blue daisy (purple-stemmed aster), acanthus leaves, a butterfly, a bullfinch, and other birds. 10-line foliate init...
Buttercups and butterflies (fol. 29v)
[ca. 1500-1520]
The border is decorated with buttercups and butterflies (cabbage white and wall brown). 6-line foliate initial 'G'.
Stork, owl, grapes and flowers (fol. 82r)
[ca. 1500-1520]
The border is decorated with a white stork, an owl, a partridge and other birds, grapes, a periwinkle, a pimpernel, pinks, and a butterfly. 11-line foliate initial formed of corn and acanthus leaves. ...
Pan and other mythical creatures (fol. 97r)
[ca. 1500-1520]
The border is decorated with Pan (from Greek mythology), the god of Nature, with his horns and legs of a goat and body of a man, wearing a wreath and making music with pan pipes, several putti, some w...
Dragon and butterfly (fol. 98v)
[ca. 1500-1520]
The border is decorated with acanthus leaves, a deadnettle, a borage, a strawberry and a butterfly. 6-line zoomorphic initial 'S' formed of a green-winged dragon.
Birds and flowers (fol. 104r)
[ca. 1500-1520]
The border is decorated with pinks, strawberries, buttercups, heartsease, borage, pea flowers, mosquitos, a fly, a beetle, a butterfly, an owl, and other birds and flowers. 6-line foliate initial 'O' ...