Collection ID: 0023 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

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Publisher

Language

Origin

Place

France (northern)

Notes

• Initial A
   
• This initial is a fine example of Romanesque initial decoration. The intricate interlaced pattern of the white vine-scroll harbors a male figure in the lower compartment climbing up the tendrils of the stylized vines toward a lion in the upper compartment grazing, as it were, on the stylized foliage. The head of a beast at the top of the letter threatens to swallow the whole composition. Such play within the decorative spaces of a manuscript and the blending of abstract design and natural forms are holdovers from pre-Christian ornamental traditions, such as those practiced by the Celts.
   
• This cutting has been dated to ca. 1130.
   

Extent

Support

Script

Keywords

• 11th century
• France
• French
• Illustration
• Illumination
• Fragment

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