Initials (fragment).

Description

Title: Initials (fragment).
Published / Created: [14--].
Publication Place: France (?)
Abstract: Manuscript fragment on parchment of a series of initials from a manuscript of moderate quality attached by a gold border; a portion of an unidentified text is preserved on the other side of the fragment
Description: In Latin.
Script: written in gothic script (littera textualis).
Decoration: 5-line initial "D" underneath which is a 2-line initial "U", 1-line initials "Q", "Q", "H", "Q", and "G", and a 2-line initial "U"; the initial "D" is in a dark red decorated with white penwork and on a gold ground; it is filled with blue and white vines in an s-shape that is attached to red flowers decorated with white penwork; the letters are attached by a vertical strip of gold and blue with both ends terminating in blue and red vines with blue, red, and gold flowers.
Provenance: Gift of Henrietta C. Bartlett in 1954.
Extent: ff. 1 : 160 x 42 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval France 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Topic): Manuscripts, Medieval
Initials
Subjects: Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Initials
France > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Initials (fragment). General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.