Description
Three dragons--their tails terminating in winding foliage, one at the top of the letterform disgorging a curling vine terminating in succulent leaves--form this initial "P."
Exhibitions
From Romanesque to Gothic: Illumination in Transition. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1990.
Provenance
Priory scriptorium of Rochester Cathedral, England, 12th century [possible reference in catalog in Textus Roffensis, Rochester Cathedral Library Ms. A.3.5, fol. 230r; more certain reference in 1202 library catalog in British Library Ms. Royal 5 B.XII, fol. 2r]; Leon Gruel, Paris, before 1931 [mode of acquisition unknown, no. 1138]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, before 1931, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
