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Bodleian LibraryTowards an Image Catalogue . . . |
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Bodleian LibraryTowards an Image Catalogue . . . |
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We shall annotate and present these in a more useful way in due course. In the meantime, click on a thumbnail image to view the complete image. Please note that the thumbnails are GIF files, but the full images are JPEGs (of between 180-290 Kbs) so you will need a viewer capable of displaying JPEGs. DJP/RG 21.10.1994
 1. Opening miniature (showing the authoress in the foreground) from a manuscript of Marguerite de Navarre, La Coche ou le Dibat de l'Amour: Paris?, c.1530-40 (Bodleian Library, MS. Douce 91, fol. 3r, detail). |
 2. Marginal drawing, perhaps by Laurentius Dyamas, of a nurse and baby, and boys climbing a tree, in the fifth volume of a manuscript of Dominicus de Bandinis of Arezzo, Fons memorabilium universi: Cologne?, c.1445 (Balliol College MS. 238E, fol. 50v, detail). |
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 3. Boy whipped by a schoolmaster, perhaps drawn by Laurentius Dyamas, in the fifth volume of a manuscript of Dominicus de Bandinis of Arezzo, Fons memorabilium universi: Cologne?, c.1445 (Balliol College MS. 238E, fol. 50v, detail). |
 4. Boy holding a bird's nest and a spray of green leaves (symbolizing Spring), from the calendar of an illuminated Psalter: Paris, c.1235-55 (Bodleian Library, MS. Douce 48, fol. 4r, detail). |
 5. Fool at the feet of the Emperor Domitian, from an Apocalypse picture book: England, c.1255-60 (Bodleian Library, MS. Auct. D. 4. 17, fol. 2v, detail). |
 5a. 'Hugo pictor': self-portrait of a scribe and illuminator, placed as colophon at the end of a manuscript of St. Jerome's Commentary on Isaiah, from the Benedictine abbey of Jumieges, Normandy, late 11th century (Bodleian Library, MS. Bodl. 717, fol. 287v, detail). |