Description
This alphabet book, a repository of foliate patterns and letter designs, may have served as a pattern book used by a scribe to demonstrate his skills or to delight a collector interested in illumination or script. The carefully rendered flora and fauna, such as the iris and butterfly that embellish the letter L and the blue-flowered delphinium found in the illuminated M on the facing page, recall the precision of the flora depicted in contemporary herbal works.
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