Illuminated initial letters Finish:none including red and fallow deer

including red and fallow deer

A small portion of the theca of the spine taken from an elderly woman who 'laboured under an obstinate form of spasmodic wry neck

Plate 9 from The zoological miscellany

'Isola Bella'

Figure 1 appearing here on the bottom of the plate was moved in the published version

Illuminated initial letters Finish:none including red and fallow deerIlluminated initial letters, late 15th century. From De Civitate Dei, written and illuminated in Italy. Illustration from Illuminated Manuscripts in the British Museum, Miniatures, Borders, and Initials by George F Warner, series I, (British Museum, London, 1899).