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Total number of records: 90

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Brotherton Collection90
Medieval Manuscripts90

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saints35
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virgin mary2
Archive Piece:
BC MS 11/8
[ca. 1500-1520]
The border is decorated with a strawberry flower and curved acanthus leaves. 6-line foliate initial 'L'.
Archive Piece:
BC MS 11/9
[ca. 1500-1520]
The border is decorated with yellow daisy-like flowers and curved acanthus leaves. 6-line foliate initial 'G'.
Archive Piece:
BC MS 11/11
[ca. 1500-1520]
The border is decorated with a wild rose and curved acanthus leaves. 5-line foliate initial 'G'.
Archive Piece:
BC MS 11/12
[ca. 1500-1520]
The border is decorated with buttercups and a blue daisy (purple-stemmed aster). 6-line foliate initial 'G'.
Archive Piece:
BC MS 11/13
[ca. 1500-1520]
The border is decorated with buttercups and butterflies (cabbage white and wall brown). 6-line foliate initial 'G'.
Archive Piece:
BC MS 11/14
[ca. 1500-1520]
The border is decorated with buttercups, acanthus leaves and a waterbird. 10-line foliate initial is infilled with a tulip, a strawberry flower, a pink and a white iris.
Archive Piece:
BC MS 11/15
[ca. 1500-1520]
The border is decorated with a hawk-like bird and a partridge-like bird, buttercups, strawberry flowers and acanthus leaves. 6-line foliate initial.
Archive Piece:
BC MS 11/16
[ca. 1500-1520]
The border is decorated with bird-cherry tree flowers, anemones, irises, buttercups, periwinkles, strawberry flowers, waterbirds and snails.
Archive Piece:
BC MS 11/17
[ca. 1500-1520]
6-line foliate iniatial decorated with a fantastical flower with two yellow spadix-like tongues.
Archive Piece:
BC MS 11/18
[ca. 1500-1520]
The border is decorated with acanthus leaves, a fantastical barbed trefoil and a fantastical barbed cinqefoil. 6-line foliate initial 'G'.
Archive Piece:
BC MS 11/19
[ca. 1500-1520]
The border is decorated with acanthus leaves and flowers. 5-line foliate initial 'G'.
Archive Piece:
BC MS 11/20
[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. ...