My Dear Daisy
"Mon cueur veult estre en ceste Margueryte", illumination from the manuscript "Petit Livre d'Amour" di Pierre Sala, ms. Stowe MS 955, f. 6r, ca. 1500, British Library, London.
The Petit Livre d'Amour consists of a collection of poems composed by Pierre Sala, valet de chambre of Louis XII, for his mistress Marguerite Bullioud. This first illumination portrays the author himself in the act of "dropping" his heart in a marguerite daisy, a word-play on the name of his beloved; the face of Sala, however, was left unfinished by the artist.
Illumination from the manuscript "Tresample description de toute la Terre Saincte", ms. Royal…
Capital "Q", illumination from the manuscript "Gradualis sanctorum Ecclesiae Parisiensis pars V", ms.…
Illumination from a Book of Hours (Paris), ms. Latin MS 164, f. 81r,…