Images and some text extracts from L’Ornament Polychrome, Cent Planches en Couleurs Or et Argent [etc] by De M. A. Racinet, 1869 – 188.
I have the fac simile published by Taschen; the text has been translated from the French into English and German, but I think only in summary form.
Title: L’Ornament Polychrome (Ornament in Colour)
Published by: Librarie de Firmin Didot Frères, Fils et Cie.
City: Paris
Date: 1869
Total items: 11
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
Byzantine Saint seated, with book
A saint, by the hair probably female, sits on a chair and points to a book held in one hand in this detail from an illuminated letter B from an Anglo-Saxon manuscript. She (or he) has a halo, bare feet, robes and a smile. And a very long index finger. [more...] [$]
Fig. 99 No. 7.—Ornate border, 9th century, Gallo-Frankish School.
This gold full-page border from the ninth century features knotwork at the upper corners and two lions on the top. I also made a simplified version of this border. [more...] [$]
Fifteenth Century Manuscript Border With Jewels
This fifteenth century border originally would have surrounded a page of an Italian manuscript; it includes portraits of religious figures as well as bas-relief pictures of pearls. [...] [more...] [$]
Horizontal vintage border with female angels
This 15th century border includes a monogram set in a circle which is surrounded by pearls and supported by two winged women with lion’s feet, and from whome spring vines and foliage. [more...] [$]
Border, 9th century, Gallo-Frankish School
This gold full-page border features knotwork at the upper corners and two lions on the top. It is a detail from Fig. 99-7, which shows a much more ornate border dating from the 9th century. [more...] [$]
Images and some text extracts from L’Ornament Polychrome, Cent Planches en Couleurs Or et Argent [etc] by De M. A. Racinet, 1869 – 188.
I have the fac simile published by Taschen; the text has been translated from the French into English and German, but I think only in summary form.
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