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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: 7
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
![[picture: Byzantine Saint seated, with book]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Racinet-Ornament/wm/big/099-001-detail-byzantine-style-saint-q67-135x200.jpg "[picture: Byzantine Saint seated, with book]")
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...] [$]
![[picture: Anglo-Saxon decorative initial B in the Celtic knotwork style]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Racinet-Ornament/wm/big/099-001-anglo-saxon-initial-b-white-q75-145x200.jpg "[picture: Anglo-Saxon decorative initial B in the Celtic knotwork style]")
Anglo-Saxon decorative initial B in the Celtic knotwork style
An Anglo-Saxon capital B with the interior decoration removed, making it eaier to reuse. [more...] [$]
![[picture: Fig. 99 No. 8.---Anglo-Saxon Initial letter N]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Racinet-Ornament/wm/big/099-008-anglo-saxon-initial-n-q48-190x200.jpg "[picture: Fig. 99 No. 8.---Anglo-Saxon Initial letter N]")
Fig. 99 No. 8.—Anglo-Saxon Initial letter N
This initial letter N in the Carolingian style was used as a decorative initial for the start of a copy of John’s Gospel (beginning In Principio, or In the beginning; this is the N from “In”). The Gospel here dates from the 8th or 9th century and was [...] [more...] [$]
![[picture: Fig. 99 No. 7.---Ornate border, 9th century, Gallo-Frankish School.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Racinet-Ornament/wm/big/099-007-ornate-border-q75-127x200.jpg "[picture: Fig. 99 No. 7.---Ornate border, 9th century, Gallo-Frankish School.]")
Fig. 99 No. 7.—Ornate border, 9th century, Gallo-Frankish School.
This gold full-page border from the ninth century features knotwork at the upper corners and two lions on the top. I also made a simplified version of this border. [more...] [$]
![[picture: Border, 9th century, Gallo-Frankish School]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Racinet-Ornament/wm/big/099-007-knotwork-border-with-lions-q75-125x200.jpg "[picture: Border, 9th century, Gallo-Frankish School]")
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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