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Head of Christ with the Crown of Thorns (fol. 142r)
[ca. 1440-1460]
Initial 'A' inhabited with a frontal portrait of Christ.
Monsters and grotesques (fol. 30r)
[ca. 142-?]
The historiated border includes a grotesque with a woman's head wearing a head-dress and with a lion's lower body walking with a stick (tau cross), and a wyvern-like grotesque.
Monsters and grotesques (fol. 30v)
[ca. 142-?]
The historiated border includes a grotesque with a woman's head wearing a head-dress and with a lion's lower body walking with a stick (tau cross), and a wyvern-like grotesque with goat's horns.
Extracts from Ptolemy's Almagest and other works, and from the Greek commentators on the Almagest 9 (v.1)
Ptolemy; Theon of Alexandria; Porphyry (234-305); Rhabdas, Nicolaus Artabasdos
[14--? ]
Volume 1 contains extracts from Ptolemy Mathematike Syntaxis (the Almagest), together with two other short works on astronomy by Ptolemy (c. 2 AD), and extracts from the commentary on the Mathematike ...
Grotesques (fol. 14v)
[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 ...
St John the Evangelist (fol. 13v)
[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.
A man and a monster (fol. 27r)
[ca. 142-?]
The historiated border includes a man holding an open book, and a grotesque with a man's head on a lion's body holding twigs bundled together.
A man and a monster (fol. 33r)
[ca. 142-?]
The historiated border includes a grotesque with a lizard's body and a man's head, and a man carrying two buckets over a stick.
A man and a monster (fol. 33v)
[ca. 142-?]
The historiated border includes a grotesque with a lizard's body and a man's head, and a man carrying two buckets over a stick.
Patriarchs and prophets (fol. 26v)
[ca. 1500-1520]
A group of patriarchs and prophets, including (in the foreground) King David with his harp and a crown, and Moses with horns on his head.
The Holy Shroud (fol. 111r)
[ca. 1490]
The small miniature depicts a figure holding the Holy Shroud, which shows the head of Christ, crowned with thorns.