This is a drawing of a decorated manuscript page. It contains Latin text written in neat black gothic script with red highlights. Each column of text is framed by elaborately decorated initials with spiraling foliage and small creatures. The page features intricate marginalia, including birds and mythical figures in blue, red, and gold colors. Musical notations at the top suggest it may be part of a liturgical text.
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Manuscript Leaf from the Beauvais Missal

French 13th Century

1285

Medium
pen and ink with gouache and gold on vellum
Classification
Drawing
Dimensions
sheet: 28.7 x 19.9 cm (11 5/16 x 7 13/16 in.)
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CG-E
Credit line
Gift of Stanley and Wilhelmina Jashemski in honor of her parents, Professor Howard C. Feemster and Emma L. Feemster
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed

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