Borders, initials, etc. from illuminated M.S.S
A hand-painted album of illuminated manuscript borders and initials, with no named maker, published around 1800 in an unidentified place for collectors and students of medieval book art. The two pictures show a painted miniature of a robed, bearded figure reading a scroll inside a blue and gold frame, and a large decorated initial I with tiny figures in roundels, curling leaf tendrils and a block of musical notation, with handwritten British Museum captions in the corners; a designer could draw on the gold-ground frames, the interlaced leaf scrollwork, and the medieval colour pairing of blue, red and gold.
