Illuminated Border with Snail, Insect, Bird, Grotesques and Flowers from a Manuscript

Title	Illuminated Border with Snail, Insect, Bird, Grotesques and Flowers from a Manuscript
Artist	French
Date	15th or early 16th century
Medium	Manuscript cutting in tempera and gold leaf, with Latin inscriptions in gothic in red ink, on vellum
Classification	tempera
Origin	France

Themes: Entomological plates

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“Illuminated Border with Snail, Insect, Bird, Grotesques and Flowers from a Manuscript” is a work by French, dated 15th or early 16th century. It is executed in manuscript cutting in tempera and gold leaf, with latin inscriptions in gothic in red ink, on vellum and classified as tempera. In this archive it sits within the entomological plates tradition. This work is in the public domain (CC0), so the image may be downloaded and reused for any purpose without permission (see the licence note below).

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