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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. In addition, the fac simile mixes illustrations from L’Ornement des Tissus receuil historique et pratique by M. Dupont-Auberville (1877).
Title: L’Ornament Polychrome (Ornament in Colour)
Published by: Librarie de Firmin Didot Frères, Fils et Cie.
City: Paris
Date: 1869
Total items: 12
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
![[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...] [$]
![[picture: Fifteenth Century Manuscript Border With Jewels]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Racinet-Ornament/wm/big/147-01-ornate-border-q85-146x200.jpg "[picture: Fifteenth Century Manuscript Border With Jewels]")
Fifteenth Century Manuscript Border With Jewels
This fifteenth century border originally would have surrounded a page of an Italian manuscript; it includes portraits of religious figures as well as bas-relief pictures of pearls. [...] [more...] [$]
![[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...] [$]
![[picture: Byzantine Saint seated, with book]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Racinet-Ornament/wm/big/099-001-detail-byzantine-style-saint-q67-135x200.jpg "[picture: Byzantine Saint seated, with book]")
Byzantine Saint seated, with book
A saint, by the hair probably female, sits on a chair and points to a book held in one hand in this detail from an illuminated letter B from an Anglo-Saxon manuscript. She (or he) has a halo, bare feet, robes and a smile. And a very long index finger. [more...] [$]
![[picture: Celtic knotwork dragon ornament/initial]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Racinet-Ornament/wm/big/099-003-dragon-drollery-q90-178x200.jpg "[picture: Celtic knotwork dragon ornament/initial]")
Celtic knotwork dragon ornament/initial
This decorative initial was taken from a ninth century psalter [unidentified in the book] and is said to be derived from “drakslingor” style runic carvings—that is, a Viking-age style using animal-inspired motifs for decoration. [...] [more...] [$]
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