Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Noms, armes et blasons des chevaliers de la Table Ronde
France, ca. 1500
MS M. 16 fol. 3r

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Initial L enclosing daisy. Margins decorated with border of flowers including borage (?), dianthus, pea blossom, iris, viola, red and white roses, thistle, columbine, daisy, ladyslipper (orchid) and inhabited by birds, moth, grasshopper, butterfly, hybrid men, peacock, and snail. The escutcheon decorated with heraldry for King Arthur is on fol. 5v (azure, a semy of thirteen crowns or).