See the “Fragmented Illuminations” at the V&A Museum

An exhibition in the V&A museum at the moment is both a delight to the eye, and a reminder of how people would often chop medieval books up and sell off the nice pages as collectables. The most desirable pages being the ones that contained illuminations, the richly decorated illustrations that make old documents such a delight to look at, even if a person can’t understand a word of what the text says.
Initial ‘B’, showing St Michael and the dragon, from a choirbook, about 1