The illustration/illumination has black text set under it that almost directly mirrors the red text on the facing page. I think it is a nice way to visually se

All of the characters in the illustrations/illuminations are looking down upon each other, the only exception to this being the angel in the main illustration. I don’t know why this caught my attention, I don’t see that they are looking at anything in particular, the only speculation that I can make is that they are looking at each other further establishing the motion path your eyes should follow created by the floral vines.

I think the book is a good example of design, even in today’s sense. The use of space and motion paths, combined with the ornate detail of a time long past is very successfully done. However, the lettering does lack some couth that it seems could have been acquired, given a bit more time and attention to detail. The complexity of the illustrations/illuminations leads me to believe that the creators were delicate careful workers with great attention to detail, but a bit is lost in the heavy and imprecise lettering.

The largest illustration and smaller vignettes seem sort of crudely done. The perspective is off in many places and it seems to divide the illustration up into oddly shaped pieces. Other manuscripts that I looked at had strange perspectives, but it usually divided the illustration into quarters or halves that depicted different scenes. The main illustration in this spread had a far worse perspective than the 4 outer vignettes, but in my opinion all were quite skewed. Maybe there is a reason for this distortion that I am not seeing, and anyone willing to point this out and set me strai

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Morgan Library, , Bedford Master, Earth” Starting, main illustration, facing page, separate pieces text, pieces text, illustration spread, separate pieces, attention detail, spread manuscript,