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The Creation (image 1)
[ca. 1461-1483]
Six roundels depicting God's creation: the separation of sky and earth (1), creation of trees and plants (2), creation of waters and fishes (3), creation of animals (4), creation of angels (5), and th...
Annunciation to the Virgin
14th century
A large arched miniature of the Annunciation, in a French style of painting. The angel Gabriel announces the birth of Christ to the Virgin Mary. Gabriel holds a scroll with the words "Ave gracia ...
Floral border (fol. 117v)
[ca. 1440-1460]
Rinceau border with acanthus leaves, thistles, barbed quatrefoils, red berries, bluebells, a trumpet flower, and black hairline tendrils with gold ivy leaves and pine cones. Bar-frame border in rose/b...
St. Michael (fol. 77r)
[ca. 1440-1460]
Initial 'M' inhabited with St. Michael killing the devil, using a patriarchal cross as a spear. Hairline tendrils with a strawberry, a blueberry, a thistle and gold balls.
Border with green parrot (fol. 24r)
[ca. 1470-1480]
Full floral border decorated with thistles in a vase, strawberries, poppyheads, acanthus leaves, gold balls with coloured lobes, and large aroid flowers in the bottom corners. The poppyheads and the g...
Floral border (fol. 149r)
[ca. 1470-1480]
Bar-frame border in gold and in rose/blue acanthus vine that extends into the border in curved leaves and hairline tendrils that carry poppyheads, heart motifs, gold pine cones and gold balls with gre...
Floral border (fol. 151v)
[ca. 1440-1460]
Rinceau border with cranberries, blueberries, acanthus leaves and speedwells in the upper and lower margin. A column border in the middle of the page is composed of a bar-frame of gold and blue/pink v...
Thistles, pears and periwinkles (fol. 154v)
[ca. 1440-1460]
The border is decorated with pink thistles, periwinkles, pears and curved acanthus leaves. There is a 2-line initial 'A' in blue and red on a gold ground, and there are 1-line intials in gold on blue ...
Peas and blueberries (fol. 169v)
[ca. 1440-1460]
The border is decorated with a design of peas in pods, blueberries, campanulas and curved acanthus leaves. There is a 2-line initial 'P' in blue and red with white penwork on a gold ground.