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| Astrological table illustration, f. 19v |
Colloquial name(s): Libellus geomancie (Book of Astrological Tables)
Official name(s): British Library, Royal MS 12 C V
Date: 1391-1400 (source)
Origin: England (source)
Online facsimile available via: British Library Online Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts
This manuscript contains sixteen colour-and-gold miniatures that illustrate a 'Table of figural images with their nature and properties' (source). An added note in the manuscript records that the text was compiled for Richard II, King of England (b. 1367, d. 1400) in 1391.
All sixteen miniatures are available online. The consist of full figures of men dressed in contemporary civilian and clerical clothing.
Basic descriptions of the illustrations are provided by the British Library with the facsimile.
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