Illuminated Initial L

16th century (Renaissance)

7.5 cm 11 cm

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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 bu...

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Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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en
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2
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