Monday, April 9, 2012

Decoration


The borders throughout this manuscript are decorated with vines, berries, flowers, leaves and odd squiggles and shapes.  Each page of text has 14 or 15 lines with a border of just over an inch wide.  The calendar and full pages of decoration do not have borders but the colors are bright and vibrant.  Gold leaf is used throughout the book as embellishments in the incipit, explicit, borders and full page illuminations.  Gold was always applied first to prevent sticking to pigments.

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