This week, we’ll be looking at inhabited, illuminated, decorated, and historiated initials in
This week, we’ll be looking at inhabited, illuminated, decorated, and historiated initials in different manuscripts. The use of enlarged letters to mark the beginning of a passage creates real estate for illustrations to be housed inside the openings of ‘Os’ or ‘Ps’ or any letter than can be decorated further with the accompaniment of an attention-catching flourish. This particular manuscript, LJS 23, features inhabited initials with dragon figures. Their bodies are elongated and twisted to intertwine with the initial and to fill the given space perfectly. De Natura Rerum is a general introduction to science, including sections on fish, insects and invertebrates, trees, cosmology and astronomy, herbs, springs, gems, wind and clouds, the four elements, stars, and eclipses. LJS 23 originates from Northern France or Flanders in the 13th century.To see the full digitized version of LJS 23, visit Openn:http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs23.html -- source link
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