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Manuscript Illumination with Saint Dominic Saving the Church of Saint ...

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Initial D with King David, from a Cistercian Gradual, Flanders

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Manuscript Illumination with the Annunciation in an Initial R, from a ...

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Initial letter D with garlands - Engraving, Public domain image

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Initial from BL Arundel 155, f. 12v

Coloured initial 'Q'(uare) at the beginning of Psalm 2. Image taken from f. 12v of Psalter and prayers ('The Eadui Psalter', 'The Arundel Psalter'). Written in Latin. The Arundel Manuscript Collection was amas... More

Decorated Initial O; Inhabited Initial E

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Decorated Initial D; Decorated Initial I

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Decorated Initial D; Decorated Initial I

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Decorated Initial D; Decorated Initial O

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Inhabited Initial A; Initial D: A Church

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Decorated Initial C; Decorated Initial A

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Decorated Initial O; Inhabited Initial D

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Manuscript Illumination with Initial H, from a Bible

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Manuscript Illumination with Initial H, from a Bible, Burgundy, France

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Manuscript Illumination with Initial V, from a Bible

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Manuscript Illumination with Initial V, from a Bible, Burgundy, France

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Manuscript Illumination with the Visitation in an Initial D, from a Ch...

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Initial P with the Martyrdom of Saint Peter Martyr

Saint Peter Martyr, a hero of the Dominican order who was murdered by heretics in 1253, was named a saint within two weeks! When the Dominicans established their liturgy three years later, the feast of Saint Pe... More

Manuscript Leaf from a Book of Hours Showing an Illuminated Initial D ...

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Manuscript Leaf Showing an Illuminated Initial R with The Resurrection

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Manuscript Leaf with Foliated Initial P, from an Antiphonary

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Initial I: Dominican friar with a book; Initial P: Solomon Instructing...

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Initial S: Saint John Handing a Scroll to Two Men; Initial I: Saint Ju...

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Initial I: Obediah; Initial V: Obediah Offering Food

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Manuscript Leaf with Foliated Initial P, from an Antiphonary

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Manuscript Leaf with the Martyrdom of Saint Peter Martyr in an Initial...

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Manuscript Leaf with the Martyrdom of Saint Peter Martyr in an Initial...

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Initial words from BL Add 14763, f. 134

Initial words decorated with blue and red flourishing. Image taken from f. 134 of Miscellany of philosophical works including e. g. the Guide of the Perplexed by Maimonides in Samuel ibn Tibbon's Hebrew transla... More

Manuscript Illumination with the Beheading of Saint Paul in an Initial...

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Manuscript Illumination with the Presentation of Christ in the Temple ...

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Manuscript Illumination with the Presentation of Christ in the Temple ...

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Manuscript Illumination with the Beheading of Saint Paul in an Initial...

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Initial and headpiece from BL Harley 5535, f. 1

Headpiece in colours and gold, with a large initial 'M' in colours and gold. Image taken from f. 1 of Psalms and Odes, imperfect at the end. Written in Greek. The "BL Harley Manuscript" refers to a collection ... More

Initial O: Christ Enthroned with His Hands Raised; Initial D: A Semi-P...

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Initial U: The Holy Spirit; Initial F: A Man Kneeling in Prayer; Initi...

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Initial A: Two Men before a Judge; Initial S: Two Men Fighting with a ...

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Manuscript Leaf with Initial M, from a Missal

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Initial I: Two Men in Prisons; Initial I: Two Men Killing Two Other Me...

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Initial I: A Man Giving a Goblet to a Man and Another Man Killed by Ha...

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Manuscript Leaf with Initial M, from a Missal

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Initial from "La China considerata nella sua storia, ne' suoi riti ne'...

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Decorated Initial from BL Harley 6398, f. 1

Initials 'T'(he) and 'I'(f) in blue with red pen-decoration. Prologue in red with blue paraph marks. Image taken from f. 1 of Boke of Marchalsi (treatise on horse breeding and veterinary medicine). Written in... More

Initial from BL Lansdowne 842, vol. 1, f. 19

Decorated initial 'M'(aiores), at the beginning of Boethius's super Cicero's Topica. Image taken from vol. 1, f. 19 of Opera omnia. Written in Latin.

Initial from BL Add 14762, f. 8v

Detail of an illuminated initial. Image taken from f. 8v of Haggadah for Passover (the 'Ashkenazi Haggadah'), German rite with the commentary of Eleazar of Worms. Written in Hebrew.

Initial and cadels from BL Lansdowne 378, ff. 30v-31

Coloured initial and decorated cadels with human faces. Image taken from ff. 30v-31 of The Rule of St Benet, and the ritual for the ordination of nuns (ff. 43-46). Written in English, with Latin catchwords.

Initial and border from BL Lansdowne 839, f. 1

Historiated initial with Dante, and a full border, including medaillons with heads, and heraldic arms supported by putti in the lower margin, at the beginning of Dante's Comedia. Image taken from f. 1 of Divina... More

Initial and foliate border from BL Add 15423, f. 117

Decorated initial accompanied by partial foliate border, at the beginning of Deuteronomy. Image taken from f. 117 of Pentateuch (the 'Duke of Sussex's Italian Pentateuch'). Written in Hebrew.

Initial from BL Arundel 445, f. 1

Decorated initial 'R'(everendo), at the beginning of Petrus de Braco's Compendium juris canonici. Image taken from f. 1 of Compendium juris canonici. Written in Latin. The Arundel Manuscript Collection was ama... More

Decorated Initial from BL Harley 6251, f. 11v

Initials 'A'(ftir) in blue with red pen-flourishing. Image taken from f. 11v of The Prose Brut Chronicle of England (abbreviated version to 1419). Written in English. The "BL Harley Manuscript" refers to a col... More

Manuscript Illumination with the Virgin and Child in an Initial S, fro...

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Initial S with Saint Peter Liberated from Prison

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Initial from "De Liggeren en andere historische archieven der Antwerps...

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Manuscript Leaf with Foliated Initial A, from an Antiphonary

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Initial from BL Harley 3016, f. 38v

Initial 'A'(postolicis) with penwork decoration. Image taken from f. 38v of Epistolae and Sermones; Expositio missae and other shorter texts. Written in Latin. The "BL Harley Manuscript" refers to a collection... More

Initial and border from BL Lansdowne 836, f. 3

White vine initial and three-sided white vine border, with heraldic arms supported by putti in the lower margin, at the beginning of Horace's Epistolarum. Image taken from f. 3 of Epistolae (ff. 3-31); Ars poet... More

Initial, border and bas-de-page from BL Lansdowne 463, f. 104

Decorated foliate initial 'B'(eatus), and a three-sided foliate border with a bas-de-page scene of a farmer's wife pursuing a fox who has stolen a goose, at the beginning of the Ordinal. Image taken from f. 104... More

Initial from BL Arundel 138, f. 163

Detail of decorated initial. Image taken from f. 163 of Miscellaneous texts, including Epistolae. Written in Latin. The Arundel Manuscript Collection was amassed by the Howard family, particularly Thomas Howar... More

Initial and border from BL Lansdowne 469, f. 1

Decorated initial and full foliate border, at the beginning of the Nova Statuta. Image taken from f. 1 of Nova Statuta (index Statutes of England, Statuta Angliae, Statute book), from 1 Edward III to 3 Henry V ... More

Initial from BL Add 21412, ff. 3a, 3c, 5a-c, 6a-c, 7, 8a-c, 9a-h, 10a-...

Part of an inverted (see text on reverse) foliate initial ?'O', measuring 40 x 20 mm. On the reverse partial text reading '[illegible, cropped] /..er: t./.. :ut' (at left of image). Image taken from f. 3a of Cu... More

Initial from BL Harley 276, f. 2v

Initial 'I'(n) with penwork decoration at the beginning of John. In the upper margin an inscription in the hand of Sir Simonds D'Ewes. Image taken from f. 2v of Gospel of John, with gloss. Written in Latin. Th... More

Initial 'A'. from BL Sloane 3049, f. 1

Initial 'A'. Image taken from f. 1 of Livre des anges. Written in French. Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753) was a physician and naturalist who played a crucial role in the development of British museums and librarie... More

Initial from BL Harley 1684, f. 105

Detail of coloured initial. Image taken from f. 105 of Medical miscellany including surgical treatises by Thomas Scellinck of Thienen (ff. 5-104), Lanfrancus de Mediolano (ff. 105-140), and Jan Yperman (ff. 142... More

Initial from BL Harley 3915, f. 19

Initial 'I'(ncaustum) with penwork decoration at the beginning of the chapter on ink in book 1 of Theophilus' De diversis artibus. Image taken from f. 19 of De diversis artibus and other texts including De Ungu... More

Manuscript Illumination with the Annunciation in an Initial R, from a ...

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Initial with penwork decoration from BL Harley 5429, f .1

Initial 'O'(mnes) with penwork decoration. Image taken from f .1 of De bello Jugurthino. Written in Latin. The "BL Harley Manuscript" refers to a collection of medieval manuscripts held in the British Library ... More

Initial from BL Burn 165, f. 1 - Public domain medieval manuscript

Illuminated white vine initial 'C'(um) and heading in multi-coloured display capitals, at the beginning of the volume. Image taken from f. 1 of Disputationes tusculanae (ff. 1-91v), De finibus (ff. 93-178v), Ac... More

Initial from BL Lansdowne 833, f. 63v

Decorated initial and display script, at the beginning of book 3 of Columella's Rei rusticae. Image taken from f. 63v of Rei rusticae, etc. Written in Latin.

Initial from BL Burn 178, f. 57

Decorated initial 'P'(rima), at the beginning of Horace's Epistolae. Image taken from f. 57 of Odes (ff. 3-42), Epodes (ff. 42-50), Carmen saeculare (ff. 50-51), Ars poetica (ff. 51-57), Epistolae (ff. 57-76), ... More

Initial from BL King's 32, f. 2

Opening of Martial's Liber de Spectaculis, with the title in the square capitals attributed to Bartolomeo Sanvito, and the text to Pompino Leto, with the illuminated white vine-stem initial 'B'(arbara). Image ... More

Initial from BL Lansdowne 453, f. 249v

Initial with pen-flourishing, at the beginning of a later addition to the Bible. Image taken from f. 249v of Bible. Written in Latin.

Initial with reserved designs from BL Arundel 117, f. 5

Initial 'Q'(uoniam) with reserved designs, at the beginning of Martinus Polonus's Chronica. Image taken from f. 5 of Chronica pontificum et imperatorum, and other prophetic texts, including Joachim of Flora's V... More

Initial and border from BL Lansdowne 831, f. 56v

Decorated initial and partial border with a putti holding heraldic arms, in Cicero's Rhetoricorum veterum. Image taken from f. 56v of Rhetoricorum veterum. Written in Latin.

Initial and historiated border from BL Sloane 2157, f. 3

Decorated initial 'I'(n) with a historiated three-sided foliate border, at the beginning of Magister Gerardus Cremonensis's Liber Canonis primus. Image taken from f. 3 of Liber Canonis. Written in Latin. Sir H... More

Initial with penwork decoration from BL Harley 5388, f. 2

Initial with penwork decoration 'P'(retor). Image taken from f. 2 of Speculum monachorum. Written in Latin. The "BL Harley Manuscript" refers to a collection of medieval manuscripts held in the British Library... More

Initial from BL Harley 2534, f. 32

Initial 'A'(rma), the first word of the Aeneid, which begins: 'Arma virumque cano'. Image taken from f. 32 of Bucolica (index Bucolics, Eclogues), Georgica (index Georgics), Aeneis (index Aeneid)(imperfect) wit... More

Initial and border from BL Sloane 2560, f. 1

Decorated initial 'Q'(ui), and full foliate border with putti and birds, at the beginning of the Alchemical treatises. Image taken from f. 1 of Alchemical treatises. Written in Latin. Sir Hans Sloane (1660-175... More

Initial and border from BL Lansdowne 450, f. 85v

Decorated initial 'R'(esurrexi) and a three-sided foliate border. Image taken from f. 85v of Missal, Use of Rome (begins and ends imperfectly). Written in Latin.

Initial and border from BL Lansdowne 838, f. 1

White vine initial 'A'(nnum), and a full white vine border with putti and birds, at the beginning of Suetonius's Vitae Caesarum. Image taken from f. 1 of De vita Caesarum (index XII Caesars). Written in Latin.

Manuscript Illumination with Saint Lawrence in an Initial C, from a Gr...

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Initial from "The Months illustrated by pen and pencil. The designs by...

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Manuscript Illumination with Singing Monks in an Initial D, from a Psa...

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Manuscript Leaf with Foliated Initial A, from an Antiphonary

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Initial from BL Arundel 123, f. 95

Decorated initial 'S'(ecundus). Image taken from f. 95 of Miscellaneous theological and other texts, including Secretum secretorum, Apollonius of Tyre (ff. 33-42v); and the Historia de Preliis Alexandri Magni (... More

Initial from BL Burn 158, f. 2 - Public domain medieval manuscript

White vine initial 'S'(i) and partial border with the arms of the Maffei family of Volterra, at the beginning of Cicero's In verrem, with the ownership mark of the Duke of Grafton in the upper right-hand corner... More

Initial from BL Arundel 40, f. 1

Initial 'I'(nterrogatus) with reserved designs, at the beginning of Bernhard von Gordon's Lilium medicinae. Image taken from f. 1 of Lilium medicinae. Written in Latin. The Arundel Manuscript Collection was am... More

Illuminated Initial and border from BL King's 446, f. 1

Illuminated initial 'I'(l est assavoir), and a full border with foliage and acanthus, at the beginning of Guillebert de Lannoy's Travels in Egypt and Syria undertaken in 1422. Image taken from f. 1 of Le raport... More

Initial from BL Arundel 375, f. 47v

Initial 'I'(ncipit), with a change of script, and possibly scribe. Image taken from f. 47v of Gesta regum Francorum, and other histories. Written in Latin. The Arundel Manuscript Collection was amassed by the ... More

Initial and border from BL Sloane 2423, f. 1

Decorated initial 'C'(harles), including heraldic arms, and a partial foliate border, at the beginning of the Lois d'Oléron. Image taken from f. 1 of Lois d'Oléron. Written in French. Sir Hans Sloane (1660-175... More

Initial and border from BL YT 7, f. 143

Illuminated initial 'L'(etatus) and a partial border, in the Book of Hours. Image taken from f. 143 of Book of Hours, Use of Rome ('The Hours of Dionora of Urbino') (Eleonora Gonzaga della Rovere). Written in L... More

Initial from BL Sloane 1448A, f. 18v

Design for an initial and border. Image taken from f. 18v of Pattern, sketch, or model book. Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753) was a physician and naturalist who played a crucial role in the development of British m... More

Initial from BL Sloane 1448A, f. 5

Design for an initial and border, with a bird. Image taken from f. 5 of Pattern, sketch, or model book. Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753) was a physician and naturalist who played a crucial role in the development o... More

Initial from BL Harley 2804, f. 43

Illuminated initial 'V'(erba) with foliate decoration. Image taken from f. 43 of Bible (the 'Worms Bible'), Psalms-Acts 16:17, imperfect. Written in Latin. The "BL Harley Manuscript" refers to a collection of ... More

Initial from BL Add 22310, ff. 1-9, f. 1

Initial 'V' with filigree penwork decoration. Image taken from f. 1 of Leaves from an Antiphoner (index antiphonal, antiphonary). Written in Latin.

Initial S: A Bishop before a Fire; Initial O: A Nimbed Monk and a Fema...

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Initial and border from BL Lansdowne 787, f. 10

White vine initial and three-sided white vine border with putti, birds, an ape, a lion, and a butterfly, at the beginning of Francesco Petrarca's I sonetti et canzoni. Image taken from f. 10 of Sonetti e canzon... More

Initial from BL Lansdowne 842, f. 2

Detail of illuminated initial and border. Image taken from f. 2 of Opera omnia. Written in Latin.

Initial and border from BL Lansdowne 831, f. 1

Historiated initial 'S' and full border with putti, medaillons and heraldic arms, at the beginning of Cicero's Rhetoricorum veterum. Image taken from f. 1 of Rhetoricorum veterum. Written in Latin.

Initial from BL Arundel 84, ff. 110v-111

Illuminated initial and marginal diagrams. Image taken from ff. 110v-111 of Elementorum, in the translation by Athelarum. Written in Latin. The Arundel Manuscript Collection was amassed by the Howard family, p... More

Decorated Initial from BL Harley 2407, f. 93v

Initial 'R'(yght) with pen-flourishing. Image taken from f. 93v of Miscellaneous treatises on alchemy, including John Lydgate's 'The Churl and the Bird' (the latter imperfect at the beginning). Written in Engli... More