Category: Initials

E is for Exquisite
9 October 2020   |    Floral Friday

Capital "E", illumination from the manuscript "Gradualis sanctorum Ecclesiae Parisiensis pars II", ms. RES VMA MS-1411, p. 25, 1669, Département Musique, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris.

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Flowers of Peace
20 March 2020   |    Floral Friday

Capital "I", illumination from the manuscript "Epistolarium et Evangeliarium ad usum capellae regiae Versaliensis", ms. Latin 8896, f. 33r, 1767-1776, Département des manuscrits, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris.

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C is for Creativity
20 December 2019   |    Floral Friday

Illuminated initial, a capital C, from the manuscript “Liber epistolarum ad usum Ecclesiae metropolitanae Parisiensis”, ms. Latin 8895, p. 43, 1753, Département des Manuscrits, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris.

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P is for Pink
25 October 2019   |    Floral Friday

Illuminated initial, a capital P, from the "Breviary of Isabella of Castile", ms. Add MS 18851, f. 51r, ca. 1497, British Library, London.

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