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| Image title: | Green and brown border with vines and bird |
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| Source: | Tymms, W. R.: “The Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times” (1860) |
| Place shown: | none |
| Keywords: | borders, foliated borders, birds, vines, colour |
| Status: | out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free stock image for all purposes usage credit requested Please do not redistribute without permission, since running this site is expensive. |
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This border was taken from “Hours of the Virgin” (Harl. 2,936). The book is attributed to the Master of Martainville and includes 24 miniatures with foliate borders (such as this one) in colours and gold. The British library has some images too: |
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| Filename: | 84-fifteenth-century-borders-01-q85-500x141.jpg |
| Blog image: | http://fromoldbooks.org/r/1/84-fifteenth-century-borders-01-q85-500x141.jpg |
| Blog link: | http://fromoldbooks.org/r/1/pages/84-fifteenth-century-borders-01/ |
| Scanner dpi: | 2400 |
| Unmarked: | You can get a version of this image without the watermark at the lower right corner by requesting it in using the comment link below. The images are watermarked to help people find where they came from if they get reposted to blogs or other sites. Images under 1200 pixels on a side are still free, although I will ask for a donation :-) |
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