Koninklijke Bibliotheek, KB, 78 D 40
(Festal Missal)
Codicology
| Produced: | Amiens, 1323 |
| Location: | Koninklijke Bibliotheek (Koninklijke Bibliotheek (Netherlands)), Hague, Netherlands |
| Type: | Missal |
| Language: | Latin |
| Folios: | 177 |
| Illustrated: | Yes |
| Illustrator: | Petrus de Raimbaucourt |
| Scribe: | Garnerus de Morolio |
| Binding: | 19th-century green and red leather |
| Media: | Vellum |
| Script: | Littera textualis |
| Dimensions: | Height: 34.7 cm Width: 24.8 cm |
Folio 1r
Description
This manuscript has several animal illustrations in the margins, including three of the unicorn and the maiden; in each of these the maiden holds a mirror in which her face can be seen, an unusual feature.
2 full-page miniatures, 1 miniature, 20 historiated initials, 8 illustrations in the margin, decorated initiales with border decoration. Made for Johannes de Marchello, abbot of the Premonstratensian abby of St. Jean at Amiens.
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