#decorated initial

[deafsnake]

Буквица А (кириллица)

[glyptolite]

Art by Spencer Charles and Kelly Thorn.

[rabanusmaurus]

“Striped Hose and Double Hats” from a Book of Hours, in Latin. Belgium, ca. 1485. (Bequest of E. Clark Stillman, 1995. MS S.7, fols. 247v-248r.)

[upennmanuscripts]

LJS 380 Pros mathēmatikous ... etc., written in Italy between 1438 and 1445.

This text is a critique of learning, divided into the disciplines of grammar, rhetoric, geometry, arithmetic, astrology, music, logic, physics, and ethics. A short work titled Dialexeis or Dissoi logoi, which was often attributed to Sextus Empiricus and included in manuscripts of his work, is at the end of the volume.

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[bibliophilly]

Erin Connelly on Twitter

“Lovely decorated initial, @FreeLibrary Lewis E 151, f. 1r @pacscl @SIMS_Mss @GripTheRaven #BiblioPhilly”

[rabanusmaurus]

Folio 166r, Hours of Jeanne d’Evreux. MET Museum.

[rabanusmaurus]

Fol. 5r. Le Champion des Dames. BnF, Francais 12476. (1440).

[rabanusmaurus]

Decorated Initial with Scene of Christ Entering the Temple.1408–11

Lorenzo Monaco (Piero di Giovanni). MET Museum.