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Diagram of an 8 leaf gathering: Quaternion.

French Translation of Boccaccio's De Claris Mulieribus

Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, fr. 12420, f. 13v: Minerva

Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, fr. 12420, f. 71: Gaia

Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, fr. 159, f. 10v: Cain and Abel.

Baltimore, Walters Art Museum. MS 209, f. 51v .

Painted rinceaux with elaborate staff , gold ground foliate three line initial and penflourish 1-line initial and line ending.

Baltimore, Walters Art Museum. MS 209, f. 55v-56.

Two line gold ground foliate initial with painted rinceaux and pen flourish one line initials and line endings.

Baltimore, Walters Art Museum, MS 232, f. 17.

Painted rinceaux with elaborate staff , gold ground foliate three line initial and penflourish 1-line initial and line ending.

 

Baltimore, Walters Art Museum, MS 232, f. 28v-29

2-line gold-ground foliate initial with bar staff and painted and penned line rinceaux. Pen flourish 1-line initials and line endings.

Baltimore, Walters Art Museum, MS 232, f. 53v. Painted and penned rinceaux with elaborate staff. Gold ground foliate three-line initials and dentelle one-line initials and line endings.

Baltimore, Walters Art Museum, MS 232, f. 32v-33. Bar staff along side and bottom with painted and penned rinceaux. Gold ground foliate two-line initials and dentelle one-line initials and line endings.

Baltimore, Walters Art Museum, MS 265, f. 56v. Painted rinceaux with elaborate staff. Gold ground three and one-line initials and line endings.

Baltimore, Walters Art Museum, MS 265, f. 49v-50. Bar staff in outside border of each folio with painted and penned rinceaux forming a bracket around text block. Gold ground foliate one and two line initials and line endings.

Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, lat. 17294: The Salisbury Breviary, f. 106: Adoration of the Magi.

Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, lat. 17294: The Salisbury Breviary. Completed page.

Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, lat. 17294: The Salisbury Breviary, f. 195v. Finished text with spaces left for initials and miniature.

Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, lat. 17294: The Salisbury Breviary, detail of f. 195v. Note guideletter "h" in space left for initials

Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, lat. 17294: The Salisbury Breviary, f. 214.

Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, lat. 17294: The Salisbury Breviary, f. 214v

Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, lat. 17294: The Salisbury Breviary, detail of f. 214. Eagle and stump drawn directly, frames of miniatures are drawn.

Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, lat. 17294: The Salisbury Breviary, detail of f. 214v. Eagle and stump traced from the recto of the leaf.

Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, lat. 17294: The Salisbury Breviary, f. 688v. Gold leaf applied to marginal decoration, frames for miniatures, and initials.

Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, lat. 17294: The Salisbury Breviary, detail of f. 688v.

Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, lat. 17294: The Salisbury Breviary, f. 328.

Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, lat. 17294: The Salisbury Breviary, f. 328v

Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, lat. 17294: The Salisbury Breviary, detail of f. 328. Painted acanthus has penned detailing.

Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, lat. 17294: The Salisbury Breviary, detail of f. 328v. Acanthus decoration mirrors the recto of the leaf. Only base color had been painted in.

Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, lat. 17294: The Salisbury Breviary, f. 314. Border and text decoration is completed.

Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, lat. 17294: The Salisbury Breviary, detail of f. 314. Preliminary drawing visible in space for miniature.

New York, The Cloisters, The Belles Heures, f. 52: miniature by the Limbourg Brothers; secondary decoration is by the A Master of the Belles Heures.

New York, The Cloisters, The Belles Heures, f. 30v-31. Simple bar staffs with quatrefoil cornerpieces. Penned rinceaux with gold leaves decorate all four borders. Gold-ground foliate two- and one line initials and line-endings.

New York, The Cloisters, The Belles Heures, f. 15v. Secondary decoration by the B Master of the Belles Heures.

New York, The Cloisters, The Belles Heures, f. 16. Secondary Decoration by the A Master of the Belles Heures.

New York, The Cloisters, The Belles Heures, f. 19v (conjugate folio to f. 16). Secondary decoration by the A Master of the Belles Heures.

New York, The Cloisters, The Belles Heures, f. 20 (conjugate folio of f. 15). Secondary decoration by the B Master of the Belles Heures.

New York, The Cloisters, The Belles Heures, f. 204. Secondary decoration by the A Master of the Belles Heures.

New York, The Cloisters, The Belles Heures, f. 71v. Secondary decoration by the B Master of the Belles Heures.

Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, Nouv. acq. lat. 3107 (the Saint Maur Hours) , f. 33.

Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, Nouv. acq. lat. 3107, f. 93

London, British Library, Cotton Domitian AXVII (The Psalter of Henry VI), f. 74v-75.

London, British Library, Cotton Domitian AXVII (The Psalter of Henry VI), f. 75. Manuscript probably first made for Louis duc de Guyenne, the Dauphin. The arms of the prince have been altered to be those of Henry VI.