The decorated halos
Artists' Techniques
The way that halos were decorated throughout the manuscript is remarkably uniform, considering the number of artists at work. The vast majority of them consists of plain gold leaf, usually integrated into the miniature’s background, profiled in vermilion red, with small white dots equally spaced along the entire outline. In a few cases (fols. 23v, 49v, 50r, 73r, 74v), groups of two or three white lines run across the width of the halos.
Hand A was the only artist to occasionally decorate his gilded halos with tooling and incised lines forming various patterns, rather than with painted outlines.
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Folio 15 v
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Folio 16 r
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Folio 18 r
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Folio 19 v
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Folio 23 v
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Folio 39 v
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Folio 40 r
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Folio 41 r
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Folio 49 v
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Folio 50 r
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Folio 51 r
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Folio 54 r
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Folio 59 v
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Folio 60 r
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Folio 64 r
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Folio 72 v
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Folio 73 r
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Folio 74 v
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Folio 75 r
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Folio 85 v
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Folio 86 r
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Folio 87 v
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Folio 100 v
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Folio 101 r
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Folio 104 r
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Folio 115 v
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Folio 116 r