PLATE 2. Manuscript missal bordered with vegetal scrolls
inhabited by naturalistic birds, fantastic dragons, hybrid
animals, and little naked men shooting arrows or clinging to
the branches. Although the historiated initial “S” showing
Pentecost is in the style of the Master of the Cypresses who
worked in Seville in the 1430s, the marginalia place the
volume into the midcentury or third quarter. Courtesy Lilly
Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana (Ms.
Ricketts 75, f. cliv verso).
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