Saturday, April 27, 2013

from Medieval and Earlier Manuscripts blog :

The Prose Brut Chronicle of England,15th century

Harley 1568, f 1, British Library

gothic cursive script

Historiated initial of King Diocletian and his daughters

Saturday, March 30, 2013

How Sir Galahad Sir Bors and Sir Percival were fed with the Sanc Grael; But Sir Percival's Sister Died by the Way"


      watercolor, by  Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1864       Tate, Britain