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Total number of records: 9
[Evangelistarium]
[ca. 1480-1520]
Decoration: A large incipit initial in blue with a white pattern, and decorated with a leafy design in red, blue, green and purple, and extending as a floral border in the inner margin. In the lower m...
[Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis]
[ca. 1450-1500]
The quire signatures (b-o) indicate a missing quire at the beginning of the manuscript (a calendar). Decoration: One full-page miniature (Virgin and Child) and two smaller miniatures. One 4-line his...
Christ (fol. 1r)
[ca 1450-1500]
4-line initial 'D' in blue on red background, decorated with a strawberry, a speedwell and a daisy, and inhabited with a head-and-shoulders portrait of Christ, crowned with thorns.
Decorated initials (fol. 42v)
[ca 1480-1520]
6- and 4-line initials in red and blue, infilled and decorated with floral ornamentation in various colours.
Decorated initials (fol. 47v)
[ca 1480-1520]
7- and 3-line initials 'I' in red and blue, decorated with pen ornamentation of flowers and pomegranates in various colours.
Virgin and Child (fol. 4r)
[ca 1450-1500]
Virgin Mary holding the Christ-Child within a mandorla, framed with rosary beads. Across the miniature is a cartouche on which a prayer in French is written.
Skull and bones (fol. 4v)
[ca 1450-1500]
The miniature shows a skull and cross-bones in a grassy landscape.
Decorated initial (fol. 44v)
[ca 1450-1500]
3-line initial in gold on a mauve background, infilled with white penwork ornamentation of poppyheads or blueberries on a blue background.
Virgin and Christ (fol. 99r)
[ca 1450-1500]
The miniature shows the weeping Virgin Mary, with her hands clasped in prayer, and a sword piercing her chest. She is beside the crucified Christ, the bottom of whose legs are visible.