Page-length cutting from a liturgical book on parchment, with a large foliate-nosed dragon [France (probably Paris or the north east), late thirteenth or early fourteenth century] Cutting from the outer vertical border of a leaf, with a large orange-faced dragon, with a shaggy mane and large dog-like ear, opening his foliate shaped snout to push out his tongue and bite the foliage before him, his body composed of gold and blue panels, orange wings and soft pink legs, his tail descending into a coloured bar border with sprays of gold and gold ivy-leaf foliage (on top of which a small white bird perches), terminating in similar coloured foliage, a rectangular cut out from the inner side of the cutting revealing a text height of approximately 110 mm., tiny scuffs to gold, else in excellent condition, the whole cutting 200 by 32 mm., laid down on nineteenth- or early twentieth-century card The present dragon stands out from the mass of examples in the decoration of French books in the late twelfth and thirteenth century. He is finely detailed and his foliate-shaped snout is a fascinating detail.
Page-length cutting from a liturgical book on parchment, with a large foliate-nosed dragon [France (probably Paris or the north east), late thirteenth or early fourteenth century] Cutting from the outer vertical border of a leaf, with a large orange-faced dragon, with a shaggy mane and large dog-like ear, opening his foliate shaped snout to push out his tongue and bite the foliage before him, his body composed of gold and blue panels, orange wings and soft pink legs, his tail descending into a coloured bar border with sprays of gold and gold ivy-leaf foliage (on top of which a small white bird perches), terminating in similar coloured foliage, a rectangular cut out from the inner side of the cutting revealing a text height of approximately 110 mm., tiny scuffs to gold, else in excellent condition, the whole cutting 200 by 32 mm., laid down on nineteenth- or early twentieth-century card The present dragon stands out from the mass of examples in the decoration of French books in the late twelfth and thirteenth century. He is finely detailed and his foliate-shaped snout is a fascinating detail.
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