Leeds University Digital Library

Hippocamp (fol. 117v)

  • Original object type: Artefact
  • Title: Hippocamp (fol. 117v)
  • Description:

    4-line initial 'S' in gold, on red/blue background, decorated with white penwork (flowers and leaves). A bar-frame column border in gold and blue, and with small green leaf motifs. The border is decorated with large leaves (partly uncoloured), trefoils, golden ball, barbed quatrefoils, and a blue sea-horse-type creature, a hippocamp, with a coiling fish-like lower body and the upper body of a horse.

    Context: Psalter

  • Date range: [ca. 1450-1500]
  • Date: 1475
  • Depositing User: - libemu
  • Date Deposited: 17 Mar 2015 20:20
  • Last Modified: 06 Apr 2018 12:51