Produced: Lille and Ninove, 1460

Language: Latin

Author: Lambert of St. Omer
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Binding: 18th-century brown leather
Media: Vellum
Script: Littera textualis

Folios: 225  Height: 40.8 cm   Width: 28.6 cm

Manuscript type: Single-author

Location: Koninklijke Bibliotheek, Hague, Netherlands

Family: n/a

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The Liber Floridus of Lambert of St. Omer, a twelfth century encyclopedia of Biblical, chronological, astronomical, geographical, theological, philosophical and natural history subjects. Illustrated with 98 coloured drawings. The animal images are finely drawn in pen, and colored with a wash. The style is remarkably modern. These images are copied almost exactly in manuscript Koninklijke Bibliotheek, 128 C 4.

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Digital facsimiles: Koninklijke Bibliotheek (partial)