Vincentius Bellovacensis: Speculum naturale. [Strassburg: Printer of the ‘Legenda aurea’, not after 13 Dec. 1481]. Opening page of Book One in Part I ([21r]) with a twelve-line initial “M” supplied in blue and embellished with white pen-work, set on a square gold ground; within the body of the letter, foliate decoration in blue, mauve, red and white; the upper, lower and inner margins of the same page are decorated with foliate and floral borders, with the coat of arms of the Benedictine Ramsey Abbey incorporated in the lower border, and with vertical bars in gold and mauve encasing the first column of text; small initials supplied in alternate red and blue; paragraph marks supplied in alternate red and blue; capital strokes in red. Sp Coll Hunterian Bv.1.6.

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