Vine Initials & Rubrics

folio 1r

folio 9v

folio 17r

folio 23v

The white vine-stem decoration popular with 15th Century humanist scribes was inspired by scrollwork initials in earlier manuscript illumination, such as used in this 12th Century missal, Newberry Library Medieval Ms. Fragment 48 (Clemens and Graham, Ithaca, 2007).

Large white vine I-initials ("In illo tempore"), ca. 110 mm. in height, block around letter I, ca. 40 x 30 mm., with gold dots with pen spray decoration in margin.

Rubrics to the four Gospels in rustic capitals, lines alternating in blue and gold.

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