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Archive Piece:
BC MS 1/8
BC MS 1/8
[ca. 142-?]
The scenes in the historiated border are St. Opportuna, a Benedictine nun and abbess; St George killing the dragon; St. Mark the Evangelist writing on a scroll; and an unidentified bishop with a mitre...
Archive Piece:
BC MS 1/21
BC MS 1/21
[ca. 142-?]
The double-compartment miniature has a man knocking acorns out of oak-trees, and the zodiacal sign of Sagittarius (the archer). The scenes in the historiated border are: a corpse lying on a bed (All S...
Archive Piece:
BC MS 1/26
BC MS 1/26
[ca. 142-?]
The scenes in the historiated border are: St John the Evangelist holding a book and a palm branch, and a green dragon with a head scarf.
Archive Piece:
BC MS 1/27
BC MS 1/27
[ca. 142-?]
The scenes in the historiated border are: a grotesque in the form of a green bird with a head of a bearded old man; the ox, the symbol of the Evangelist St Luke; St Luke copying a manuscript from an e...
Archive Piece:
BC MS 1/28
BC MS 1/28
[ca. 142-?]
The historiated border includes three grotesques: a green bird with a head of a bearded old man wearing a hat and a collar; a lion with a man's head clad in a hood, man's for- legs clad in socks, and ...
Archive Piece:
BC MS 1/29
BC MS 1/29
[ca. 142-?]
The historiated border includes a man sitting on a pillow and holding a wooden club, and a grotesque in the form of a half-lion and a bird.
Archive Piece:
BC MS 1/31
BC MS 1/31
[ca. 142-?]
The historiated border includes a man with a wooden club and a bird-like grotesque with lion's legs and a beak in the shape of a trumpet.
Archive Piece:
BC MS 1/32
BC MS 1/32
[ca. 142-?]
The historiated border includes a man with a long candle and a dragon-lion-type grotesque.
Archive Piece:
BC MS 1/35
BC MS 1/35
[ca. 142-?]
The historiated border includes a man wearing a blue jacket with gold buttons and a belt, and a two-legged dragon with wings playing a brass instrument.
Archive Piece:
BC MS 1/36
BC MS 1/36
[ca. 142-?]
The historiated border includes an angel carrying two wine carafes, an angel playing a psaltery, an angel playing a hurdy-gurdy, and a grotesque playing a brass instrument. The historiated initial has...
Archive Piece:
BC MS 1/37
BC MS 1/37
[ca. 142-?]
The historiated border includes a man playing a hurdy-gurdy, and a grotesque with a man's upper body attached to the body of a four-legged animal carrying a carafe.
Archive Piece:
BC MS 1/38
BC MS 1/38
[ca. 142-?]
The historiated border includes an angel blowing a bagpipe-type instrument, and a grotesque with a man's upper body attached to the body of a four-legged animal carrying a carafe.