• Miniatures of sheep and of rams., Bestiary

Miniatures of sheepand of rams. This is a 'Second Family' bestiary; see James; Payne p. 15. Numerous (112) miniatures in brown, green, and red, on alternately blue and red backgrounds. Small initials in red. Bestiary Thomas Rawlinson (b. 1681,

• Miniatures of sheep., Bestiary

Miniatures of sheep. This is a 'Second Family' bestiary; see James; Payne p. 15. Numerous (112) miniatures in brown, green, and red, on alternately blue and red backgrounds. Small initials in red. Bestiary Thomas Rawlinson (b. 1681, d. 1725), book

• Drawing of king Arthur finding a giant roasting a pig., Roman de Brut, a verse epitome (begins imperfectly) with continuation to Edward III; Destruction de Rome; Fierabras

finding a giant roasting a pig. The first quire misbound; the right order being ff. 2, 8, 3-7, 1, 9.French verse translation, in octosyllabic couplets, of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae.One of the first images of Stonehenge: see discussion

• Full foliate border with an initial 'S'(ancta) of the Virgin and Christ and George killing the dragon. A hound chases a stag and a hare in the bas-de-page, and a woman, likely the patron, kneels at the feet of an angel and gazes up at the Virgin., Book of Hours with a calendar, Use of Metz

1500] of the enthroned Virgin and Child with several sheepand a Franciscan monk and a nun, is pasted to f. 1v. 13 three-sided bar borders with bas de page scenes in colours and gold, and large historiated initials, many

• Decorated initial-word panel ~Barukh~ (Blessed) and full foliate border inhabited by hybrids and including a scene of a pig-like figure lifting the first cup of wine and a hare placing a stick upon a dog's head., Haggadah, liturgical poems and biblical readings for Passover (The 'Barcelona Haggadah'), Sephardic rite

the year five thousand and two hundred and nineteen from the Creation of the World which we reckon here in Bologna; and in order that he may have good title and proof, I have signed and accomplished that which I

• Calendar page for December with medallions of a man killing a pig with a hatchet, and Capricorn as a hybrid with the lower half as a blue curled tail., Book of Hours, Use of Sarum ('The Taymouth Hours')

All pages with full foliate borders and bas-de-page scenes and grotesque decoration, in colours and gold. Large and smaller decorated foliate initials, in colours and gold. Small initials and line-fillers in gold on red and blue grounds. Book of Hours,

• Miniature of a crowned woman (probably the first owner of the manuscript) kneeling in prayer with a bearded man, with the dove of the Holy Spirit above, at the beginning of the Matins of the Holy Ghos. Below, Christ stands before a group of animals, including a crowned lion, two stags, an ass, a pig, a unicorn, an elephant with a castle, a horse and an ox., Book of Hours, Use of Sarum ('The Taymouth Hours')

All pages with full foliate borders and bas-de-page scenes and grotesque decoration, in colours and gold. Large and smaller decorated foliate initials, in colours and gold. Small initials and line-fillers in gold on red and blue grounds. Book of Hours,

• Detail of a page: miniature of a pig-like figure lifting the first cup of wine and a hare placing a stick upon a dog's head., Haggadah, liturgical poems and biblical readings for Passover (The 'Barcelona Haggadah'), Sephardic rite

the year five thousand and two hundred and nineteen from the Creation of the World which we reckon here in Bologna; and in order that he may have good title and proof, I have signed and accomplished that which I

• Bas-de-page scene of David with a slingshot and rocks, surrounded by sheep on a hillside. With illuminated initials in gold and colours and a partial bar border., Book of Hours, Use of Sarum ('The Taymouth Hours')

a slingshot and rocks, surrounded by sheep on a hillside. With illuminated initials in gold and colours and a partial bar border. The style and subject, especially the many bas-de-page narratives ranging from romance and fabliau to biblical and hagiographic