Middle Ages: illuminated manuscripts, 15th century. Flowers and jewels. Examples from a Book of Hours MS 1173 1,2, Jean Foucquet's La Legende Dore MS 6889 3,4,, manuscripts in the Arsenal 5,6, Book of Hours of the Schoenborn family 7, and jewelry in the margins of a Seneca manuscript MS 8551, Bibliotheque Nationale. Moyen Age. Hand-finished chromolithograph by F. Durin from Albert-Charles-Auguste Racinet’s L’Ornement Polychrome, (Polychromatic Ornament), Firmin-Didot, Paris, 1869-73.

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