Bolintineanu - British Library MS Arundel 16 f. 2 - Initial letter with scribe and mythological animals

Bolintineanu - British Library MS Arundel 16 f. 2 - Initial letter with scribe and mythological animals

This is an illuminated capital letter R. Inside the letter is: a seated tonsured scribe with a quill and a loose piece of parchment; a tonsured person with a censer; lots of dragons possibly eating one another; a dog playing a triangular instrument with tuning pegs on one side.

Osbern

London, British Library MS Arundel 16

British Library

last quarter of the 11th century or 1st quarter of the 12th century (British Library catalogue: https://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=1620&CollID=20&NStart=16)

British Library (MSS images are copyright free)

Parchment

Latin

South-East England (possibly Canterbury)