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Birds, flowers, a classical soldier (fol. 26r)

Archive Piece: BC MS 9/28 Contains digital media

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Birds, flowers, a classical soldier (fol. 26r)

Other titles: Textualis Rotunda

Level: Piece

Classmark: BC MS 9/28

Date(s): [ca.1480-1500]

Language: Latin

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/373178

Collection group(s): Medieval Manuscripts

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The border is decorated with strawberries, speedwells, heartsease, thistles, columbines, borage, flies, a bird with a long neck, and a dark apparently naked male figure (a wild man?) holding a red shield with a white cross on it. 6-line foliate initial.


Context: Mass of the Blessed Virgin Mary: Incipit missa beate marie virginis: Et introibo ad altare dei

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