Geometry from BL Burn 275, f. 293
Summary
Historiated initial with a woman with a set-square and dividers teaching a group of students (perhaps the personification of Geometry) at the beginning of Euclid's Elementa, in the translation attributed to Adelard of Bath, and in the margin, a man shooting an arrow at a boar, with a dog. Image taken from f. 293 of Scholastic miscellany (see Notes for contents). Written in Latin.
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Date
1300 - 1500
Source
British Library
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Public Domain