[Manuscript illumination: Initial]
Collection:CSM Museum & Study Collection
Date: early - mid 13th century
Medium: Paint, gold leaf on parchment
Object number: F.35.5
DescriptionMajor initial 'Q' rendered in pink on a gold rectilinear ground (outlined in black) with an infill decorated with stylised foliate motifs in red and green, set against a blue background with decorative overpainting in white (originally silver?). Latin text in textualis rotunda script with one small littera notabilior (in blue at the top of the page, with some red flourishing which probably belonged to another littera florissa that was lost to the knife of the 'vandal').